A poor attempt at M33

[Keiran]

Saturday night I went to my dark site (about 50 min drive from home) to do some imaging.... As most of you know it takes quite a while to set up an imaging rig, I got to the spot at 8pm to find a clear sky with abit of cloud on the horizon that looked like it was heading in a different direction.

I started setting up and managed to get 12 x 60 second subs Thick never ending clouds came over and ruined any chance of me getting more...

I though i would process it and see what i got.... So here it is, abit noisy with darks to match.

WO Megrez 72 with WO FFII

HEQ5 and Unmodded Canon 500D

12 x 60 seconds ISO800

10 x 60 second Darks

Thanks for looking

Keiran

[evilgeenius]

Nice. Much better than when i last tried getting m33, there was almost nothing there :-(

[spacebloke]

Nice shot Keiran, I'd be happy with that

[blinky]

Thats pretty nice - it is a very faint target. I was out the other night and got 10X10min shots with my F4 Newt and it was still very faint!

[Coco]

I think you are being hard on yourself, 350mm on a DSLR and you have captured some pretty good detail, especially with only 60 second subs

[Keiran]

Thanks for the comments all, I was really hoping to spend a few hours on this, but the stupid weather ruined it... hopefully saturday will be better

[morimarty]

Keiran

For only 12x60 second subs due to the clouds rolling in.

(GOOD OLE BLIGHTY)

This is a very impressive image. as others have said M33 is very faint. A.T.B