Hockey Stick and Whale Galaxy-28-04-08 - Good Start but Poor Finish

[jcm]

Got the scope out for the first time in a couple of weeks. Things started off well , scope in park position , power on set time/date etc aligned on Arcturus , perfect right near the centre of the eyepiece , only slight adjustment needed. ( I will be sorry if I have to ever sell this HEQ5 Pro mount its behaved perfectly)

Went to NGC4631 ( whale gal. - top one in image , NGC4656 lower one is the Hockey Stick) did a 60 secs image to check position - Whale gal. bang in the centre. Move frame about to position both galaxies nicely , started 4min exp , then , stopped exposure. Started again then . In the end I managed 2 X 4mins. Gave up went to bed.

John

PS - 130mm APO at F6 , Canon 350D at 800 ISO

[MikeD]

That's still a very nice image and at only 8 min's it's a corker.

Looking forward to your next try.

mike.

[jcm]

That's still a very nice image and at only 8 min's it's a corker.

mike.

If you look carefully you can see a lot of noise in the background. Tried to remove some of it. It just shows how well the background noise is removed if you average out a reasonable number of subs.

John

[RobH]

Great stuff for only 8 minutes

You can always add more later, it'll be worth it I reckon.

Cheers

Rob

[MartinB]

Definitely worth continuing with John. Looking great

[Beyond_Vision]

A great shot despite the clouds stopping play. Its nice to see different targets that live up to there nicknames.

Regards

Kevin

[Sam]

Very Cool! Interesting couple of galaxies.

[mik]

Very nice images looking good.

Mick

[centroid]

Nice work John!!

Dave

[zhgutas]

Nice frame despite the problems John! I too like to see what it'll look like when everything's fine

Marius

[jcm]

Nice frame despite the problems John! I too like to see what it'll look like when everything's fine

Marius

Got a load more data last night , so should be able to improve my first go.

John