M51

[blinky]

This was taken last night with the 350d/ED80 10X8mins guided with a ZS66/DSI.

I found this very hard to pull out of the light pollution, it is in the most polluted part of my sky. I think I need to get the big 'ol Newt back out of retirment for these small targets. Anyway enough waffling, here you go! I also ran it through astrometry.net (Wonderfull app!) to get the names of the other couple of galaxies I picked up. I did not use any flats as I tried tonight but it seems to make things worse! See my other thread in the imaging help section for some samples.

[ncjunk]

Nice image, I now appreciate the subs required for this after trying it the other week. Could you add an unprocessed sub so that I can see what it looks like?? I find it interesting to see what other people have to deal with.

Thanks

Neil C

[blinky]

Here you go! Luna was also out last night and adding to the pollution as well.

[ncjunk]

Bleedin heck...I thought you had posted a blank picture by mistake!

Ok I am gobsmacked at that...I don´t have light pollution to compare to that.

Neil C

[blinky]

And that was with an LPR filter!

[Les Tilly]

I would never go 8 mins did you check your histogram it should be around 45% from the left side well thats my personnel oppinion I would think that sub is way up there you will have much better results keeping it around 45 to 50 and stack more subs

Regards Les

[blinky]

Thanks for the Tip Les, I will give that a try and see how I get on.

[Les Tilly]

Thanks for the Tip Les, I will give that a try and see how I get on.

No problem I have crappy skies too what Lp filter are you using ?

[blinky]

It's an Orion filter, usually pretty goo but this was taking looking back towards Edinburgh so a lot more LP plus the moon always has a hand in these things!

[Herakles]

very good , even with LP , I still to find thm !

[jgs001]

Superb image Craig, and looking at that single sub, you did well processing that

[Dangerous-Dave]

That's a nice widefield shot. I never bother with deep sky images if the moon is above a few degrees these days, it's not worth the hassle IMHO!

[Taff]

Very nice capture of M51, great spotting of the other galaxies.Mrk