This comet was really, really a fight… First failure was to believe stellarium the position of 41P. It’s wrong! I tought the comet is just very faint so I continued with the shooting. After stacking the session, no comet on the image…. so second try on the next day. Searching the right position. Much better, […]
The galaxy period isn’t over 😉 f/5.6 Details
Finally M13 at 400mm focal length. The weather forecast was not really good, but it was it worth. f/5.6, ISO800, 104min total exposure time Details Drizzled: Normal:
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:
Messier 78, about 1600 LY distant from Earth. Unfortunately I didn’t hit the focus very well 🙁 My coldest night this season… -5°C but it felt like -20°… I never shivered this way before while focusing… I need better gloves and a few more layers of clothes 😉 Details
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
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