M81/M82 - poor effort from 3rd Jan

[daz]

Murky night, but enough for me to have a bit of a practice at anyway!

18 minutes total exposure - 9 x 2 minutes unguided, SXVF-H9 thru WO66 on EQ6

Need to track the dust bunnies - and get round to flats!!!

[Doc]

Daz for 18 minutes and unguided it's damn good.

[Paxo]

Good effort Daz considering the conditions and the amount of subs, what I'd give for even a murcky night? Keep up the good work.

Steve..

[Whippy]

For 18 mins and relatively short subs too, that's not bad! Time for the wonder fluid though . Nice one amigo.

Tony..

[daz]

Not as shmoov as yours chum, but yep, wirebrush and dettol time!!

Thanks Steve/Mick

[Whippy]

It'll all come good for you, I'm sure of it. The amount of setbacks and issues you've had, I'd have given up long ago and stuck to visual! Got to love the 66 though, if there was a scope that made it 'fun', it's that .

Tony..

[Dave]

Nice one Darren. Nice round stars.

[CELESCOPE]

Nice to see you into this DSO Daz , and a pretty good result.

Rog

[daz]

Thanks chaps - most kind!

[Psychobilly]

Nice One Daz....

Need to get you guiding next....but with the tracking in there there's no bloomin need to

Billy...

[MikeP]

You assume its a dust bunny, it could be the first picture of dark matter!

Mike

[RobH]

That's pretty good for the time involved Daz....get some flats though...they really help, not just with the dust but the overall contrast too.

Cheers

Rob

[FLO]

There's some nice detail in M81

[barkis]

Good stuff Daz. Is MiniDaz in to DSO's, or sticking with the moon for now.?

I would have just told everyone that was a Black Hole. Who's to say it Isn't.

Could have been passing by on a feasting frenzy.

Ron.

[daz]

I would normally have guided, but for some reason, it wasn't playing ball. Still, my new guidecam should be en route, and that should make things MUCH easier!!

Dark Matter and Black holes - good idea chaps!!

MiniDaz is sticking to the moon. I need to get his scope collimated and get him back out there. He got a webcam and nosepiece for crimbo, so he is keen to!!