M35

[astro mick]

HI all.

Had a short window last night,as high cloud soon started rolling in.We are always battling the cloud.

I thought I would have a go at a star cluster,something I rarely do.Gemini was starting to show its face,so I chose M35.I took two sets of images,one with my usual ED80/Atik 314L+,and another set using my old WO 66 with a 1000D canon.

For both sets of images I took about an hours worth at 450 secs duration.

The WD80 was an RGB image only.

Bias,Darks and Flats  were applied.

I do like star spikes so I added these to my DSLR image,sorry if you do not like them.

Also it was pretty cold.

Image 1 is the 1000D and image 2 is the ED 80

Mick.

 

 

[alan potts]

1 hour ago, astro mick said:

HI all.

Had a short window last night,as high cloud soon started rolling in.We are always battling the cloud.

I thought I would have a go at a star cluster,something I rarely do.Gemini was starting to show its face,so I chose M35.I took two sets of images,one with my usual ED80/Atik 314L+,and another set using my old WO 66 with a 1000D canon.

For both sets of images I took about an hours worth at 450 secs duration.

The WD80 was an RGB image only.

Bias,Darks and Flats  were applied.

I do like star spikes so I added these to my DSLR image,sorry if you do not like them.

Also it was pretty cold.

Image 1 is the 1000D and image 2 is the ED 80

Mick.

 

 

Nice shots, when time is short star cluster so many times come to the rescue, I'm doing M45 now fully expecting cloud.

Alan

[astro mick]

2 hours ago, alan potts said:

Nice shots, when time is short star cluster so many times come to the rescue, I'm doing M45 now fully expecting cloud.

Alan

Thanks Alan.

Yes we do often neglect these lovely objects.Good luck with M45,cant wait to see.

Mick.

[alan potts]

9 hours ago, astro mick said:

Thanks Alan.

Yes we do often neglect these lovely objects.Good luck with M45,cant wait to see.

Mick.

I have not sorted the spacing on the Borg 77ED yet and the edges are a little out of shape, they are also very difficult to focus in my view with that Helical type focuser, don't much like it.

Alan