First Light for guided setup - NGC7331 etc...

[Roy Batty]

Not the most pretty set of images, but the purpose was to test out my new guided setup to check out any star trailing. Imaging was all via my ED80 & prime focus DSLR, guided with my C8-N. This arrangement will be swapped over next time.

First image has NGC7331 as the most prominent galaxy, part of the "Deer lick" group, also to the right you can make out "stephans' quintet". This is a particularly rich area for galaxies and I very much hope to return to it with the C8-N.

Details: 8 X 5min subs, ISO800.

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The second image is the double cluster, this is a mixed stack of three subs of 5:8:10 mins. The 10 min sub was ISO200, whilst the other two were ISO800.

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Finally the last one is just a single 5 min sub of NGC 891 that came out quite nice.

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cheers

RB

[Sam]

Nice shots Roy! I was looking in this area last night my lightbridge and NGC7331 really stands out - I didn't have any luck with the quintet though.

Sam

[Whippy]

Nice one Roy, the NGC 7331/Stephan's Quintet shot stands out for me.

Tony..

[barkis]

For a test run Roy, you turned out three very nice images. Test run successfull.

Ron.

[Psychobilly]

Well Roy,

I think we can safely say the guidings working quite nicely

Billy...