M51

This image was taken a couple of months ago and I'm just now processing it. If I remember correctly, it consists of 4min subs and I think I captured 4 total.

The New Year with Clear Skies!

After many weeks of poor weather conditions, here are my latest imaging efforts to start off the new year. M74 (The Phantom), NGC 891, M109, M82 (Cigar Galaxy) and M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) All images were captured early Jan. 1st 2009

Conditions: 28F Clear, Fair Seeing and Transparency with 10-20mph Wind

Equipment and Software:

10” Reflector
60mm Refractor
Atlas EG-Q
DSIc
SPC900NC
EQMOD
PHD
Toshiba Satellite
PSE 2.0*PixInsight LE*Registax4

M74

1x660s + 3x480s=39min.

NGC 891

7x240s=28min.

M109

5x240s=20min.

M82

6x240s=24min.

M51

5x240s=20min.