M100

[Sam]

Here's a work in progress of M100. I only got 12 subs last night before I lost the guide star and the position went off. I could have got more if I'd remembered that now I have EQMOD running it would have easily slewed back to the right place - must have been too tired to remember that! The subs were 5mins 5secs each, not sure how I managed such an unusual sub length either????

I looked at this one through the 16" while I was imaging it and the spiral were easily visible - it's quite big and bright. So here's the details:

12 X 5mins 5secs at ISO1600

Canon 1000D

Orion XT8 8" Newt

EQ6 Syntrek

EQMOD, ST80 guidescope and QHY5 guidecam

Software: Guidemaster, PixInsight, EQMOD

Sam

[ncjunk]

Nice pic, there are quite a few fuzzies there. I think I will have a quick look at the details online.

That extra 5 seconds made all the difference, like making a guitar amp that goes up to 11. :-D

Neil C

[Aza]

Nicely detailed Sam! There is quite a strong red cast on the image though

I opened it up in photoshop and dropped the red level. It made quite an improvement in the colour.

[Aza]

I didnt manage to get out last night, and am jealous seeing all these images come in!

So I took the liberty of playing with your image, hope you dont mind!!

[Deneb]

Lovely shot Lightbucket, whats the lowest aperture instrument could you see M100 in ?

[Sam]

Thanks for the comments and the tweaking, here's a wider field version:

Sam

[Aza]

Cor the widefield looks great.

So many galaxies in there

[Doc]

Cracking image Sam, love the widefield

[Starjumper]

Great image Sam.

John