M51

[Sam]

Fourth night in a row last night of imaging!!

This is 33 X 2min subs at ISO 1600, canon 1000D and 8" reflector. It was really windy so I was quite surprised it turned out as well as it did:

Sam

[robindurant]

Beautiful ain't it

Robin

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Sam

M51 is another one of those "cant get enough of it" targets

Peter....

[CELESCOPE]

Excellent Sam , a lovely capture that mate , nice focus and good back drop.

Rog:)

[jgs001]

That's a lovely result Sam. Are you still in the same place in the UK, and if so how did you create the gap in the 100% cloud cover ?

[Sam]

John,

That was on Monday and it was pretty clear out my way - though the clouds were rolling in about 10pm and it was very windy, was it cloudy in Horsham?

Sam

[MikeD]

Nice work.

Mike.

[Sam]

Thanks Mike,

It's your image of M51 from last year that has inspired me to keep at it! though I've still got a looooong way to go before getting anything like that image!

Sam

[jgs001]

John,

That was on Monday and it was pretty clear out my way - though the clouds were rolling in about 10pm and it was very windy, was it cloudy in Horsham?

Sam

Monday was clear, but the wind was causing me issues with galaxies, so I went for M67 instead. I misread the timings, I thought you meant last night... that was wall to wall cloud.

[Sam]

Monday was clear, but the wind was causing me issues with galaxies, so I went for M67 instead. I misread the timings, I thought you meant last night... that was wall to wall cloud.

yep, same here:)

[Dangerous-Dave]

Excellent shot - this one has frustrated the heck out of me with the OMC.

[markcol]

Lovely shot Sam!

Mark

[Aza]

Thats brilliant....are you sure its only an hour??

I must be doing something wrong

[Whippy]

Very nice Sam .

Tony..

[Starjumper]

Thats a wicked picture Sam, nice colour.

John

[MidnightSun]

Way to go..Nice shootin'...

[Sam]

Thats brilliant....are you sure its only an hour??

I must be doing something wrong

Yep Aza, it was 33 X 2 min subs - the focus is key and then followed by gentle processing, small changes at a time seems to work.

Sam

[Aza]

You have done a great job with your data then!

The data I have so far does not come anywhere near that.

If you grab a few more hours, you will have something out of this world (no pun intended!)

[Sam]

Thanks Aza, Another couple of hours would help bring the noise down. I need to also sort out the darks, bias and flats thing as well.

Sam

[RobH]

Amazing for an hour, and such short subs!

Cheers

Rob

[MartinB]

Nice work in the wind Sam. Not an easy scope to manage either in those conditions

[Roy Batty]

Lovely image and processing Sam, I like the fine detail thats come through.

Keith

[Sam]

Here's another half hour added, now it's 49 X 60sec subs. this time I've also put in flats and offsets:

Sam