Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

[Davide Simonetti]

M51, one of my favourite targets - each time I come back to it I get a bit more detail out of it. It's still not quite there yet but this isn't too bad for just under an hour of exposure with my scope (I wanted to get a few more shots but the camera battery ran out and by then it was about 5am and time to call it a night). No doubt more data will be added over the next few weeks.

  7 x 8 minute exposures at 400 ISO

10 x dark frames

  9 x flat frames

24 x bias/offset frames (subtracted from flat frames only)

Guided with PHD

Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop

[laudropb]

Nice capture.

[aeut]

Cool image!

[Stephen Green]

    Nice image

  

   Stephen

[CCD Imager]

Well captured

[RSM]

Nice image. Good to see you can capture this from SE England with the LP. On my list too.