M97

[wxsatuser]

No great shakes but I had to do something.......cloud withdrawal.

Had a shot at M97, The Owl.

Lots of puffy white clouds messing up the subs but you gotta do what you can.

35mins......7x300secs at IS0 800.

Setup as my sig.

[leemanley]

Very nice, plenty of detail for 35 mins

[swag72]

I like this, the framing is nice, processing good - A super image - well done!

[Pete Presland]

excellently framed with M108, never imaged it myself but its just been added to the "to do" list! you have picked a nice amount of detail as well.

[Bizibilder]

Nicely done and lots of colour as well - in both the Owl and the galaxy.

[wxsatuser]

Thank you kindly everyone.

It most likely was'nt a good target given the clouds and it's quite small for an ED80.

Thought I would get a lot more subs but not to be, cloud got thicker around 8.30pm, so

thought I would pack it in......just after locking the obsy it cleared, typical!

Never mind, quite chuffed as this is my first PN.....will definately add to it when clouds allow.

[lensman57]

Really good capture, nicely done with only 35 minutes of data.

Regards,

A.G

[Sandancer10]

Lovely image and a new target methinks. 

[StargeezerTim]

Very nice...

[Langy]

Wow that is great, I think it has gone well passed the Beginners section!

Well done.

[wxsatuser]

Wow that is great, I think it has gone well passed the Beginners section!

Well done.

Started imaging properly around Oct last year.

I still regard myself as a beginner.......weather really has'nt given me much time for imaging.

I'm just getting to a stage where most things are falling into place except my processing.

Trying to learn Imagesplus......

the M97 image was just tweaked in DSS with some also

in Irfanview, the data was spoiled by the cloud and is a bit grainy but nice to get a PN.

[Russe]

Nice! Framing is great!

[Russe]

Just wanted to say again - thanks for posting because I wasn't aware of this pair!! Went home and imaged M97/108 last night. Am so happy - even though it got cloudy later...

[wxsatuser]

I also went out last night, clouds thinish and annoying as usual but got about an hours worth.

I have'nt processed yet but it looks a bit better than 35mins.

One sub has a satellite trail just like last time and the thin cloud brighten the sky quite a lot.

Trying to bring out the red around the edge of M97 but need a lot more time.

[todd8137]

Looks good very wide

Pat

[Astrosurf]

Brilliant! They're targets I must go for next.

Alexxx

[Russe]

Again - I was very happy about this idea!!!

Here's my humble attempt from 4.3.2014 - 170min subs

[wxsatuser]

Thats pretty good, nice one......what settings did you use?

It is quite small is'nt it and looking around the net it's supposed to be quite a tough one to image.

I wanted another go last night but those darn fine clouds were out again and they just spoil the data.

[Eddy_]

Beautiful shot, thanks - great work.