M97, M108 and lots and lots of fuzzies

[emyliano2000]

Quite recently I sold my narrowband filters for my OSC camera to fund an upgrade and because I'm only left with the broadband light pollution filter, I felt like shooting a galaxy, but I when I was zooming through stellarium I thought that a galaxy and a planetary nebula in the same photo would be nicer so I stopped to M97 - M108.

This is a crop from the wider field of view photo. I drizzeled the stack x2 and cropped it to match the fov of my ASI294MM on the AT106 in case I will add some luminance to it at a later date. I annotated it in pixinsight to show the little fuzzies in the photo

Equipment used:

Eq3 Pro

TS65 quadruplet f6.5 imaging telescope

ZWO ASI294MC PRO cooled at -15°C

IDAS LPS-D2 2" filter

Qhy5 guide camera

9x50 finder-guider

 

Location: Bushey, Bortle 7

 

105x300sec Gain 125 Offset 30

32x600sec Gain 125 Offset 30

 

Date: 18.01.2021 to 04.02.2021

 

Total integration time: 14 hours and 5 minutes

 

Calibration and stack in Astropixel processor, edit in pixinsight and photoshop CC 2020

 

Emil

 

 

 

[Sunshine]

Fantastic! the owl nebula always amazes me because of its almost perfect orb like shape, there are more fuzzies than my eyes can see in this image.

[emyliano2000]

10 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Fantastic! the owl nebula always amazes me because of its almost perfect orb like shape, there are more fuzzies than my eyes can see in this image.

Thank you! Yes, it is a pretty nice planetary nebula isn't it? Quite recently I've seen a photo of it shot with a much longer focal length telescope and it looked incredible. It even has a very faint outer halo that was captured very nicely 🙂

Emil

[Kon]

Great capture!

[wimvb]

That's a great image and very deep. Some of those faint galaxies are more than 600 Mly distant (pgc 34144; nearby pgc 2506900 is 760 Mly distant).

[emyliano2000]

9 minutes ago, wimvb said:

That's a great image and very deep. Some of those faint galaxies are more than 600 Mly distant (pgc 34144; nearby pgc 2506900 is 760 Mly distant).

Wow, thank you very much for the info, I never had in mind that I could capture things sooo far away with my little TS65Q 😁

Emil

[peter shah]

what a great capture...I had one of those  little 65 quads....stunning little scope

[emyliano2000]

2 hours ago, peter shah said:

what a great capture...I had one of those  little 65 quads....stunning little scope

Thank you Peter, indeed they are pretty something, I love mine 😁

Emil

[maw lod qan]

Incredible! Thanks for posting it. 

As much as I would enjoy doing images of DSO, I know with my budget and the learning curve, meaning time, it will probably never be.

But thanks to members here on the SGL like you, I still get to see and enjoy such wonders!

[gorann]

Great image with nice details and colours. It is impressive what you and your light-weight kit have accomplished here.

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

Just... Wow. Brilliant. 👍

[emyliano2000]

28 minutes ago, gorann said:

Great image with nice details and colours. It is impressive what you and your light-weight kit have accomplished here.

Thank you!

Quite a few people told me that I must have the best eq3 in the world

Emil