IC5070

[MikeD]

Anthony and I decided to hit our dark site last night, big moon and thin cloud cover made it not the best conditions for lugging all the kit into the countryside, but finding a night when we can both get out and clear skies is a hard task (this is only our 2nd visit in over a year) so we took a gamble.

I only managed 2 x 15 min subs on the pelican before the clouds thickend , it did thin a bit again later so we both had a go at M51.

all in all it was just good practice for when we can get out there on a good dark night.

Our setups

IC5070 2 x 15 min's Ha

[centroid]

Nice result Mike, despite the limited number of subs.

Really good 'tracking' for 15 min subs, especially for a portable set-up.

Well done.

Dave

[MartinB]

That Pelican is looking very crisp and detailed. As Mike says the stars look nigh on perfect.

[anthony]

Here are a few more that we managed get last night

[anthony]

The above is ngc6888. Below are two more familiar faces

Note the attack of the crazy flat on m51, (iatrogenic in origin mind )

[MikeD]

The crab/yellyfish/cresent neb came out well for a single shot as did the Ring

[Caz]

Very nice series of images there chaps.. 8)

Caz

[barkis]

You both have had a very successful night producing all those superb images. You must have access to a good dark site too, which helps for those very tenuous nebulae.

Well done fellas, very nice stuff indeed.

Ron.