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
OK, this galaxy size brings my equipment to the limit… Details Drizzle 2x integration: Standard integration:
This time I tried M81 with 240s exp.time. It work’s 🙂 Details Drizzle 2x integration: Standard integration:
Not the best conditions tonight… but after weeks of bad weather I tried it with M101 Pinwheel Galaxy at home. Anyway… I need to go up to a mountain again for shooting next time. The higher I am, the better the images 😉 Details
Very frustrating weather since weeks here… So I’m very lucky I could catch M33 before the Moon rising this evening. Details:AstroBin
Third largest spiral galaxy on our sky, smaller only than the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). But it is very very faint. Even not visible on a 180sec. shot. Total integration time: 6 hours, 9 minutes (3 sessions) Details
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This Andromeda image contains 130 images (90 seconds) from 2 nights. 24. and 25. August 2016. Total integration time: 3.2 hours Details
Comparison of M33, 2015 and 2016 The images are taken from my home at Derendingen with the Skywatcher Star Adventurer and Manfrotto 190PRO3 tripod. 2015 image re-stacked and re-processed in PixInsight. M33 – 2015: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L, EOS 100D f/3.5 ISO1600 18 x 120s (36min) 6 Darks, 10 Bias No guiding M33 – 2016: […]
