M51, first light Trius 694 and 1st LRGB

[Erquy]

Hi,

After several years with DSLR, I took the plunge to CCD... and I wonder why I have not done it before (... pocket money of course!).

C8, F6.3; AVX mount

Guided Lodestar

Trius 694 mono (TEC -10C), sx mini filter wheel LRGB Baader, 5*300 sec each filter, total 100 min . 10 darks, 40 bias. Captured in Nebulosity 4.0

processed in Pixinsight.

Wonderfull camera and the combo is lodestar/SX FW is working great.

[Zakalwe]

Thats a great image. Loads of detail right into the core. :icon_salut:

Are you going to add more data to capture the outer halo?

[xtreemchaos]

great pic mate,loads of detail, i be proud of a shot like that.keep up the good work,thanks for sharing.

[kenny k]

You should be very pleased with that first light...excellent image.

Well done.

Kenny

[Stargazer33]

That's lovely & with a C8 too. Looks like the swap to CCD was a good one.

[ollypenrice]

Music to my ears, given how I bang on about the glories of CCD! Music to my eyes, too.

(Hang on, that's not right, is it??)

lly

[Erquy]

thanks for all comments. For sure I will add on data , when sky and nights allows (I am in Sweden, and nights are getting shorter, cannot start imaging before 11.00 pm now, the season is soon finished up here, to restart later in july). But I am happy for 100 min data (and the jpeg posted here is pretty bad I realise now as compared to the original -strange enough as compared to save my DSLR final image were typically giving way high size, -when resized to similar pixel w/h as above.

Olly, I read a number of your posts, yes you convinced me till my wallet permitted it ;-)

[toxic]

that is a nice image

[Coco]

Superb, do yourself s favour, don't ever look back, stick with Mono ccd and don't chop and change like I did, its an expensive waste of time and money.

[Erquy]

thanks for all comments. I did some reprocessing to preserve the core, as well to further clean up the noise, and to me it looks even better now

http://www.astrobin.com/178949/B/

[Chris]

That reprocess on Astrobin is glorious, great work

[toxic]

wow nice re-process well done 

[nightster]

Wonderful image. The blue's just pop off the screen.

[ollypenrice]

Great reprocess. WIth more data you'll get the extended blue tidal arm reappearing after it has passed the smaller galaxy. There is a hint of that already.

Olly

[johnrt]

I thoroughly approve of all of this, carry on that man! Superb images.