NGC 1023 + IC 239 (first guided image)

[Shibby]

Well after 2 years of unguided imaging, here is my first guided image! A nice pair of galaxies you can find in the Canes Venatici Cloud in the Virgo Supercluster.

The bright one on the left is NGC1023 and quite bright at mag 9.5.

The other, IC 239, is a very faint but quite pretty spiral (could do with more subs and better transparency to bring this out). If you look hard, you'll see a few other fuzzies in there.

Star shapes aren't great due to the focuser intruding, but I'm rather pleased with the way my little Orion mini finder guidescope performed with my unmodified SPC900! Here's a cap of the guide graph from last night:

Image details:

17x5min ISO-800, dark+flat calibrated

Canon 450D modded

SW 150PDS

Orion Mini Guidescope + unmodded SPC900

Vixen GP

As always, all comments good or bad are much appreciated.

[Jessun]

Great image! A tricky target for a 'first' but it sure paid off!

Side note: Good graph, but it is I suppose also a result of very precise polar alignment! Very very nice! I never pushed the RA hys or the RA agr over the default... maybe I need to tinker a bit more...

[Boren]

Just like I like it.. Lovely!

Cheers,

Harel