Excellent night

I going to look up Uranus now. Hopefully I'll find as many moons as I can.

Dave McD


Dave McD

Look up yer own :shock:

now there's a strange thing Dave, It still appears that I'm not to bad with nebula, but out completely with galaxies. I had the Ring nebula on my screen on Sunday night, but didn't press the start button as the sky was too bright and the nebula was faint. So far I've imaged the cats eye and the blinking nebula, while they both still require practice, I had no problems with them. Into the viewfinder, into the eyepiece and into focus on the DSI then image. But, when it comes to galaxies, I just cant do it, I've tried the Black-eye so often The only other thing I have problems with are reflection nebula, even with my new nebula filter, I can't see them, but planeteries just pop right in there. Be interesting to find out why we both have difficulties with the opposite things!
Bill.

Hi Bill - here's my version of M31 I shot last night. All the image shows is the core. There's a hint of dust to the upper part of the core

12 images of 60 seconds each (unguided), C8, 6.3 reducer, DSI, dark reduced.



By the way, did you try any of the image processing tools in autostar suite? If you mess about with the histogram, you can squeeze more of the fainter detail out of your image...

Cheers
Dave McD