I so love Globulars - M5 this time

[**Space*Hopper**]

Hi all,

Conditions the other night were far from perfect but I just had make the most of the little bits of clear sky in between the .

After my previous pleasing result on M3, I was determined to try to find either M5 or M13 and after triming one of my bushes to gain a clearer view of the appropriate area of the sky I successfully located M5 but arggggggggghhhhhh the same street light that had caused me a headache while imaging M3 was again flooding my telescope with light :x I then found myself once again balancing various objects on top of my shed roof in a antempt to block out as much of the light polution as possible. I then proceeded to image and here is the result.

This is the result of 11 subs this time of varying lengths between 39 and 51 seconds with a total exposure time of just under 8 minutes before clouds stopped play which was very annoying as once again the tracking of my new EQ5 clone tripod was so good that I believe it could have tracked for much longer without needing any tweaking at all.

The one thing that was different this time was that I have now bought an lcd remote timer shutter release for my Canon EOS 400d which is an incredibly useful little thing I can now store in length of exposure, interval between exposures and how many exposures and then I can leave it to get on with things while I go into the warm and make a cup of tea. This means that only an occassional check to make sure the DSO is still in the middle of the photos is necessary, it's simply brilliant :hello1:

Hope you like it, (it was certainly nice to be able to get out again)

:wave:

Ian

[steppenwolf]

Very nice, Ian - and isn't automation great!

[zhgutas]

I am a huge fan of those big snowballs too and I surely understand why you love them Very nice M5 there Ian, and seams like much less noise here than in M3 too! Guess that longer subs and fiddling with LP blocking sure made a difference. Good luck on you further hunts!

Marius

[jgs001]

Nice capture Ian

[russ]

Cracking image

[Sam]

Excellent shot - loads of stars in the cluster - and very clear, well done!

[SteelRat]

Lovely globby that 8) Nice shot.

Cheers

Matthew(SR)