M101 - my first try

[mareprah]

Here's a quick M101 from sunday... Had problems with flats, so they are "borrowed" from another night.

18 x 5min
26 x dark
10 x flat
41 x offset
ISO 800
Quattro 10" CF mounted on NEQ6 SS Pro (goto)
Canon 1000D (unmoded)

[PhotoGav]

Well that looks pretty darn good to me! The borrowed flats certainly seem to have worked and I would say that it's definitely better to use borrowed flats than no flats at all....

[x6gas]

Nice result - congratulations!

[Barry-Wilson]

A very good natural looking image, well done on this quite faint galaxy.

Barry

[jabeoo1]

That is a very nice image. Good work.

[Pete Presland]

excellent image! M101 looking very good and a few fuzzies around it as well.

[mareprah]

I would say that it's definitely better to use borrowed flats than no flats at all....

I definately agree with you! I had some trouble at the center of the image, but managed to make it as clean as posible in PS.

[Scott]

Yes, it's very nice, but aren't you cheating just a little using dark Slovenian skies .

an hr and a half with an unmodded canon...well that's just not fair

[Twisted Lip]

Great pic for unmodded - cracking result!

Will

[Christopher Davenport]

Nice one!

Guiding that 10inch beast for 5min per sub, must be great fun!

[mareprah]

Yes, it's very nice, but aren't you cheating just a little using dark Slovenian skies .

an hr and a half with an unmodded canon...well that's just not fair

I always try to get somewhere around 5hrs per object, but like always, I ran out of time:) And about the sky, yes, I admit I am cheating a bit SQM here was 21.36 when it was a bit cloudy, so I'm glad about that:)

Nice one!

Guiding that 10inch beast for 5min per sub, must be great fun!

It actually is, when everything goes as planed, but when not, it can be frustrating I threw away 3 subs at this object, which is not so much, sometimes my whole night goes to hell...not because of the 10" or its 1000mm fl, but because of an old computer and its USB ports

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice first try, I would be very pleased with that!

[animaal]

Really nice. As an owner of an unmodified 1000D, and new to imaging, I'll be thrilled if I can get results anywhere near that quality.

[purdo]

Lovely image.

[Jannis]

Looks very nice. Great capture!

[Coco]

Excellent result!

[NorrinRadd]

That's a fab first go at such a dim thing. Nice one