M81/82 re-visit 3rd Dec

[shifter]

What a night !!! I was dogged by flaming wind (not my own) and I had to battle to keep the guiding somewhere close to reasonable, erecting wind baffles and breaks just to keep the worst of it away. The wind nearly spoilt what was the best night I've seen for a while with very little atmospherics and very good seeing conditions. Anyway I managed to grab 1hr 40mins worth of subs which have turned out not too bad considering.

.....Brian.....

Subs, 6x300 sec @ iso800, 6x300 sec @ iso 1600, 4x600 sec @ iso 800

Image scope, LXD55 SN10 on an EQ-6 Pro

Guide scope, ED80-Pro and Toucam Pro

Camera, Canon 350d + Neodymium LP filter

Stacked with Maxim dl

Proc with PS CS2 and Noel's actions

(click to enlarge)

[jonifive]

Love that shot Brian. Well done for braving the elements. It's done nothing but rain here for a month.

JV

[barkis]

Well that result was worth all the effort you put in to achieve it Brian.

It is a lovely image.

Ron.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

A lovely image, well done Brian.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[legion48]

Very nice. How you managed it in that wind is a mystery to me.