Leo Triplet

[Vega]

I'm struggling to get long subs with my beast when my targets are so far from the pole. I can see a guiding setup on the horizon someday. Anyways I was pleased with what I got out of 30 sec subs. 37x30 secs in all. Took full advantage of a long clear period on the night before new moon (I'll never complain about weather timing again!... erm honest)

250px Newt / EQ6 Synscan with PEC enabled

Canon 400D, ISO 1600, 37x30 secs

Captured/processed in Images Plus

Tweaked in Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro

Thanks for looking

Matt

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Looks great Matt.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[steppenwolf]

That is lovely, Matt - lots of nice dust lane detail, especially for such short subs. although the F5 aperture was handy!

[Sam]

Great shot Matt! - The Triplet is a great little collection of galaxies.

[jcm]

Nice capture considering subs of only 30secs.

Hope you don't mind - applied a gradient removal and noise reduction filters.

John

[zhgutas]

very nice

Marius

[MikeD]

Nice job, take the plunge into guiding, you won't regret it.

Mike.

[centroid]

A nice result Matt, and well 'framed' too.

Dave

[Vega]

Thanks for the comments all, I wont say how much time I spent on framing it . Lets just say it involved plenty of 10 sec test snaps and fumbling about with the Synscan controller

Matt

[markcol]

Very nice Matt!

Ah- the composition technique where you get a stiff neck from checking the camera LCD...know it well.

Makes Live View seem really attractive doesn't it?

Cheers

Mark

[Andrew*]

Fantastic image - probably my next target. I looked at this through an 18" and Kielder and it looked almost exactly like that photo :shock: - stunning. Blinky will testify to that...

Well captured Matt, and very well framed - worth taking the time to do that. i agree it's not easy...

Andrew

[barkis]

For a non guided production, it looks pretty good to me Matt, so you can have great expectations when you do step into that arena.

Ron.