M82 - first light from my new triple rig at e-EyE

[Petergoodhew]

After 4 months I've at long last got my triple rig up and running at its new hosting site at e-Eye in Spain:.  Twin APM TMB 152 refractors plus a Star71 for widefield imaging.  Here's my first light, Messier 82 (strangely a target I've never done before).  The framing is eccentric because it was initially used to help alignment between the two scopes, but upon examination there are loads of miniscule galaxies littering the background so I decided to stick with it as it was.

17h40m total integration (46x300s L, 18x300s R, 21x300s G, 19x300s B, 18x1800s Ha bin 2x2).

[Allinthehead]

Great first light Peter. Takes some serious work to get something like this up and running. Congratulations.

[Petergoodhew]

2 minutes ago, Allinthehead said:

Great first light Peter. Takes some serious work to get something like this up and running. Congratulations. 

Thanks Richard, I very much underestimated just how much work was involved, especially as it has to run remotely.  But got there in the end, and I'm looking forward to capturing way more data each night from now on.

[Barry-Wilson]

Congratulations Peter on a detailed image celebrating your first light ?, lots of delicate Ha jets evident along with the faint arc.

I am looking forward to more images as you hoover up the photons.