Here is my latest imaging target. NGC 7331 (Deer Lick Group) I’m not very happy with my results though… I captured 15x120sec. Subs and thought with 30min of exposures would reveal more detail. I suppose the bright moon had some to do with it.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Autoguiding Finally!
Here are a couple of my first Autoguided images. M57 taken a few nights ago was mostly an attempt to figure out the PHD software. The image is 10x60sec. subs. and star trails were caused by the lack of good balancing and I eventually had to add another 7lb. counterweight. M74 was captured last night and it consist of 4x120sec subs. I did a better job at balancing and polar alignment this time. I captured second image of M74 but it consisted of 30x120sec. subs and for some reason the image did not turn out, it looked like I adjusted the brightness down to about 3%..?? Hopefully on my next session I’ll be able to take longer subs and get more data.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Faint Fuzzies
Here are a few unguided images of Galaxy M74, NGC 772 and NGC 891. All were 20x30 sec. Subs. Post processed with PSE 2.0 and NEAT
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