Into the twilight

[pyrasanth]

It's the 1st of May at 04.30 am and I'd been up all night imaging M101. The telescope had finished its imaging run & I had a literally 10 minutes before the fast rising sun ended the morning session.

I quickly had a think & imaging the following targets- M13, M11, M57 & M27 all at 30 sec exposure 1x1 bin except for M57 at 3x3 bin. These are all potential spring targets when they move into slightly darker skies. I love M11- its just a magic target & one of the first objects I ever viewed in a Dynamax 8 35 years ago!- it's a cluster that I think looks better visually than imaged.

Sorry for the pictures below but I could not resist a quick snap of each object through the IR filter.

 

[laudropb]

No need to apologise. Very nice captures.