My first M3 & firstlight with iki70mm ed

[bigal1]

Hi folks well i'm still very much new to deepspace photography as i only have a handful of DS images to date so i'm quite happy to have a new target under my belt . I aquired an Ian King Imaging 70mm ed scope from a good fellow at Astro buy and sell at the start of the week and was itching to give it a test so it was great to see the skies clearing up on saturday night . Thought i'd try imaging M3 as i like globs and have never got a picture of this before , equipment used was an iki70mm ed scope and a Canon 1000d at prime focus mounted on a Cg-4 unguided . Final image is 77 lights @ 90 seconds and 40 darks ( no flats as yet and need a field flattner to get rid of the bloated stars around the edges ) processed in Deepsky stacker , Pixinsight and Photoshop .

Regards Alan

[Gina]

Good start

[Quatermass]

Great job, Globular cluster are amazing things never cease to be amazed by how many stars they contain.