M51 dancing in the moonlight

[glennbech]

With a moon brightening most of the southern skies, galaxy hunting was perhaps a bit optimistic. M51 is however well placed at the moment so I thought Id give it a shot anyhow.

I got 1 hour and 30 seconds of 4 minute subs before camera batteries went flat. As you can see I have a guiding problem that makes my stars long. I didn't figure it out during the night. Despite guiding issues and noise, I think there is quite a bit of detail in there. I also love the "up close" fov I get with 1000mm.

I will have to go back on a better night with 3-4 hours of capture I guess :-)

As usual my SW explorer 200 newt w/Baader MPCC and Neodyum filter.

[barkis]

It looked like a promising result too, had your guiding played ball.

A bit more data would have helped also, but you can go back to it.

What camera did you use Glenn.?

Ron.

Ah! It must be the Canon 10D as for your M35 image.

I've just read your post on the cluster.

[gary1968]

If I can get to that standard I sure as h*ll will be happy, great image Glenn.......

Gary