M13,first light 8" Orion astrograph.

[Domis]

  Well after more than a  year of not getting out under the stars due to work obligations. I finally got out one night over the weekend to give the new scope a quick try. Of course this rare day off would coincide with the full moon, but it felt great to get out for a few hours regardless. After such a long time away from this and not a great deal of time prior,I seemed to struggle at each step in setting up the scope, camera and computer. How quickly we forget.

  My home being nestled in a forrested area, allows only a small portion of sky to explore and M13 was the brightess target available. This photo was taken with a Canon 1000d unmodded and consists of 30 light frames at 20 seconds, ISO 800 with 20 dark frames all stacked in DSS and processed in PS. No guiding setup,YET!

 Hopefully I"ll be out again very soon under better circumstances.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice!

[red dwalf]

excellent first effort

[Landy Dave]

Excellent, I must give this target a go