M33 from Bortle 8 skies in NE London

[jonathancd]

I have tried imaging this before with a DSLR with limited success and was keen to try again since upgrading to a cooled astro camera - Altair Astro 533mc.  Given the light pollution here in NE London I needed to use an optolong UHC filter as the optolong L-Pro was not cutting it down enough.  This was imaged with my Skywatcher Equinox 80 unguided on an AZ-EQ6, around 3 hours of 30 second exposures stacked and tweaked with photoshop.

Pleased with how this has turned out given my London back garden skies, moving to a dedicated Astro camera definitely showing its effectiveness compared to my DSLR.

Thanks for looking.

[AstroGee]

I like the image.

As a fellow Londonite, would be curious to know which DSLR you are comparing against? I am just starting out.

[Rodd]

Nice background gif Bortle 8. I have trouble with Bortle 5.8.

[alan potts]

I think that is jolly good, really can't imagine what it would be like trying to capture anything from London, I have about B2.5 here but that use to be better before the LED's were put into the town 4.5 miles away.

Alan