M81

[astro mick]

M81.

Taken a couple of nights ago.

Scope is an ED80,working at F6.3.

HX916 ccd camera.

L=9X600 secs.

R/G=6X600 secs.

B=9X600 secs.

Darks and Flats applied.

Processed mainly in Photo-Shop.

All images were unbinned.

Thanks for looking.

Mick.

[Dark Horizon]

That's not bad, although you would get a more detailed image if you removed your focal reducer for this target. Fill the frame with the target. It's a lovely galaxy to bag and is my current W.I.P target..

[astro mick]

"Not Bad"

I think its great,for me anyway.

Imaging at F7.5 is out of the question,with our skies,too slow.

Thanks for the comment though.

[Vagif]

Amazing, i like the colours 

[lensman57]

"Not Bad"

I think its great,for me anyway.

Imaging at F7.5 is out of the question,with our skies,too slow.

Thanks for the comment though.

Hi,

That is a very good image considering quality of the  seeing-sky at the moment. You seem to have quite a bit more data there that could be teased out. I agree with you 100%  with regards to our slow sky conditions and I take my hats off to you for managing the LRGB sequence, last night I managed 55 minutes of data from 6 pm till 1.30 am and for the 2nd time in the past few days I had to dump the data due to poor standard. The idea of a super fast astrograph despite their troublesome nature is becoming more and more attractive,  I am imaging at around F5 through APO EDs at the moment.

Regards,

A.G

[brettg40]

Cool!

[astro mick]

Thankyou everyone.Appreciate the time taken.

Mick.