M65 1h50m with Explorer 200 PDS and 550D

[Jannis]

Was able to finally capture this target yesterday.

It was a little windy, so i was forced to put up my scope right next to my house. While this took care of the wind, it also made me unable to polar align as i couldn't see polaris anymore.

So I Did a rough "polar alignment" by eye, as in stepping back a few meters to see polaris and roughly point mount in that direction, and started to align.

Not surpricingly i couldn't run exposures as logn as i wanted. Tried 15 min subs first, but ended up with 2.5 min being the longest i could do without trails.

So i started capturing 150sec subs, and kept doing so for about 3 hours. By then both the nearly full moon was up, and the target was behind some trees.

I'm still struggeling a bit with the color balance of this target, but got it withing acceptable range now at least.

I wich i had more data on this target, but for less then 2 hours worth of data on a DSLR i'm absolutely satisfied.

Total exposure 1 hour 50 min @ ISO 800 with 550d.

2 versons attached as one of them looked horrible on this computer after uploading, while other looks like it was supposed to. Wich one does you guys prefer?

Higher resolution 15MB PNG verson available here.

Edit: fixed some gradient on the picture.

[Jannis]

Hmm, Now both pictures and link shuold work. Sorry if it was messed up for quite soem minutes... >_<

[sologuitarist61]

Good work.

[Bizibilder]

Good pictures Jannis - Supernova clear as a bell.

[ultranova]

veru clear and defined, well done.

Paul

[Gina]

Nice image

[Ewan]

Very nice.