M13 15-05-10

[Ant]

Spent a little while trying (without to much effort or luck) to find the comet - need to learn how to control the scope better with EQmod... I wanted to just type in a RA and DEC, but could work out how to do it.

Anyway I wanted to get something so I decided to have a go at M13.

I took Bias frames and then 49 Darks last night. Tried to take Flats this morning but again had issues.

Tried to stack this morning and had some weird results - thanks Peter for helping me out...

I couldn't get anything any good with the Bias / Darks - so this image is uncalibrated - I'm going to look at each of the Bias and Dark frames to see if there is anything dodgy looking.

This is 29 x 5 minutes - total 2hr 25minutes. Which for this time of year isn't too shoddy. Spikes are real not added.

6" F5, H9, CLS filter.

Oh I also forgot to polar align

Cheers

Ant

[russ]

That's lovely Ant, really nice work indeed. Double thumbs up!

[Psychobilly]

That well worth the hassles and the wait

Peter...

[Doc]

Wow what a photo Ant and no polar alignment, how do you do it

[martin_h]

Right click on the RA/DEC display in the EQMod main window and a box will opwn to enter RA/DEC values then hit GOTO

[barkis]

Top Notch Ant.

That is a live one and no mistake. I thought it was Omega Centauri

at first.

Good stuff.

Ron.

[Ant]

Right click on the RA/DEC display in the EQMod main window and a box will opwn to enter RA/DEC values then hit GOTO

Really? it's that simple... Doh! Thanks for that... might have another go at the comet this weekend.

Thanks Ron

[Ford Prefect]

Missed this first time round mate Very nice Image.

Looks like your guiding issues are a thing of the past then

Cheers Jon

[moocher]

Spot on!!!

Alan

[moocher]

Spot on!!!

Alan

[Ant]

Just looked through all the bias and darks... and I found that around half the dark (which I left running and went to bed) were actually taken during daylight.

And of course with a newt - it's open at the back and not really light proof... So this image is a rework using 49 Bias and 30 Darks.

I think it's a little over processed, but it is better I think?

Ant