M81 & M82

[lux eterna]

This is a mosaic from one camera and two telescopes on three occations.
Background is done with a 700mm F6.5 apo but for the galaxies I used my Meade LX200-ACF plus 0.78x reducer. Each one of those got 26x15 min @iso200 with a modded Nikon D7000 and CLS filter.

Mount is HEQ5 Pro, guided with a standalone NexGuider. Captured with DslrDashboard on Android tablet.
No darks, flats or bias used. Processing with Registar, PS and Topaz Suite.

Ragnar

[tooth_dr]

Gosh that’s good. 

[Stargazer33]

That is really nice and clean; especially as you didn't use any calibration data.

[Red Dwarfer]

Excellent ! I can just make out NGC3077 at the top of the photograph 

[lux eterna]

3 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

Gosh that’s good. 

 

3 hours ago, Stargazer33 said:

That is really nice and clean; especially as you didn't use any calibration data.

 

3 hours ago, Red Dwarfer said:

Excellent ! I can just make out NGC3077 at the top of the photograph 

Thank you tooth_dr, Stargazer33 and RedDwarfer.

I guess the cold weather helped to supress some noise, it was minus 10 degrees C at the end of each session.

Re NGC3077 - that is not the one. I searched for it but neither Stellarium nor MS WorldWideTelescope has any info on it´s name.

Ragnar

[Red Dwarfer]

14 hours ago, lux eterna said:

 

 

Thank you tooth_dr, Stargazer33 and RedDwarfer.

I guess the cold weather helped to supress some noise, it was minus 10 degrees C at the end of each session.

Re NGC3077 - that is not the one. I searched for it but neither Stellarium nor MS WorldWideTelescope has any info on it´s name.

Ragnar

I might have made a mistake , or the Star Walk app has got it wrong - here is a screenshot of the equidistant arrowhead the 3 DSOs make - PS , Star Walk has got things a bit off scale in the past so it is just a rough guide 

[CraigT82]

It's UGC5247 I think.  Great image btw! 

[Lars]

Beautiful image with a lot of details. Great processing.

/Lars

[MikeODay]

Beautiful image Ragnar.  Very nice composition and I like the burst of colour in one and the details in the other.

[lux eterna]

On 2018-04-01 at 13:29, CraigT82 said:

It's UGC5247 I think.  Great image btw! 

Yes, that is the one ! Thank you.

Ragnar

21 hours ago, Lars said:

Beautiful image with a lot of details. Great processing.

/Lars

Tack Lars !

Ragnar

17 hours ago, MikeODay said:

Beautiful image Ragnar.  Very nice composition and I like the burst of colour in one and the details in the other.

Thanks Mike, I tried to get a balance between the two - nice to know it worked !

Ragnar

[celestron8g8]

Beautiful capture ! 

[Allinthehead]

I like that. Very nice Ragnar

[lux eterna]

44 minutes ago, celestron8g8 said:

Beautiful capture ! 

 

30 minutes ago, Allinthehead said:

I like that. Very nice Ragnar

Thank you Ron and Richard - much appreciated !

[Ceph]

Really nice job here Ragnar, likes the calm in this picture.

[lux eterna]

14 hours ago, Ceph said:

Really nice job here Ragnar, likes the calm in this picture.

Thank you Ceph, I tried to keep a low profile with colours, contrast and sharpening - nice to hear that it worked !