Yes! Clear Sky! Like every year 🙂 , again M33 Triangulum Galaxy. This time without color manipulation. Details And here the drizzled one. Same processing, other white balance, 2x drizzled:
This is my second M31 Andromeda attempt at 400mm fl. Now focused with the Bahtinov mask, modified DSLR and more acquired lights compared to last year (2016: 130x90s, Now: 113x120s). Only 2 nights. It was the max I could reach due to the bad wheater… really bad this year 🙁 And I tried to process […]
The galaxy period isn’t over 😉 f/5.6 Details
Again M101 Pinwheel Galaxy…. with 180s exposure time at 400mm. Details Drizzle 2x integration, resized: Standard integration
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, 23 million LY estimated distance, 60’000 LY diameter. Cropped image. f/5.6 Details
Part of the Virgo galaxy cluster. M84, M86, M87, M88, The Eyes and many more… Details
So many galaxies in Leo… the biggest 3 (starting top clockwise): NGC3628 Sarah’s or Hamburger Galaxy, M65, M66 and on the right the smaller galaxy NGC 3593. Details 2x drizzled: standard integration crop:
Today evening I did a test shot with the EF 400mm f/5.6L and Kenko 1.4x converter at 560mm f/8. Only 24 minutes… in a cloud free phase. With much more subs it could be an interesting combination… Details
This evening I checked in Stellarium the sky and found this 2 nice objects. M97 Owl Nebula and M108 Surfboard Galaxy. Asking myself why I didn’t found and shoot them earlier… so easy to find with the star Merak 🙂 Details
M81 and M82. Drizzled 2x Details
