Adromeda, Elephant's Trunk and Bode's

[Viktiste]

Due to repeated thefts in my area I have come to realize this hobby will not be very easy to to enjoy in my own back yard 😬

However I am fortunate enough to own a cottage in the mountains, about a 5 hours drive from where I live. It has fairly dark skies, the milky way is pretty clear after a minute outside in the dark. I had a couple of days there last week and brought my gear. I was able to sort out a few hardware and software issues, and got some targets imaged:

 

Andromeda, 2 nights L+R+G+B+Ha

Spent a lot of time processing trying to integrate the Ha data (using pixinsight and a little cheating in Gimp):

 

Elephant's trunk Nebula (one night)

Ha +Sii +Oiii

 

 

Bode's & Cigar (and quite a few more?) Galaxies (half a night, the meridian flip failed horribly in the middle of the night)

L+R+G+B

 

 

Edited October 22, 2020 by Viktiste

[Chefgage]

Very nice images. Well worth the drive to the cottage.

[ollypenrice]

Good! You have a well colour-balanced and even background sky which is so important in galaxy imaging.

Olly