M101 and friends

[prokyon]

Hi folks!

The day before yesterday we had clear sky. But only upon 1500 m (4900 feet) above sea level - fog!!!

But I have an observation place for such a situation, 1600m above sea level.

Moonset at 2 a.m. , all the wonderful winter objects were gone. So I had to go for galaxies. But this is not easy with the little Pentax 75.

I decided to capture M101, maybe with some other small galaxies.

350d mod. with Pentax 75,

17x10min with ISO 800

Indeed, there are a lot of weak and small galaxies on the pic, better to see here:

http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Bilder/M101_fullsize.jpg

Regards

Werner

[FranckiM06]

Great shot Werner. Lot of details and the process is very good.

Franck

[Doc]

Loads of little fuzzies in this shot.

[ollypenrice]

What a great picture! I would never have thought to take a widefield of that area. Guess what has just gone onto my Sprngtime imaging list...

It would be great to use Registar to add a high res M101 at about a metre of focal length to this one, and maybe target some of the little galaxies as well, just in luminance, maybe.

A really exciting and unusual shot, Werner.

Olly

[gary1968]

Very nice Werner, Nice colours and the stars are pin sharp, I like that a lot.

Gary

[prokyon]

Thank you for your nice comments!

Regards

Werner

[RuiBranco]

Good Job prokyon

Fantastic