41/110 - 24/03/20
A quick grab of photons might be ok for the winter globular clusters and open clusters but even a 300 second exposure at 3200 iso is too faint and noisy for anything but a dim indication for these spring galaxies! Going to have to spend more time on each of these as the list progresses! Shame this batch all had a dust blob in the same place on each one!
M47 - M47 is a bit too large and spread out for the 600D
FOV
M63 - Bright core, visible outer core and some fuzzy faintness in an elliptical surround. Still too noisy 20 x 280 seconds lights at 3200iso. Going to have to try longer exposures at lower iso for these spring galaxies.
M65 - Another faint fuzzy at 300 seconds but a nice bright core and a hint of spiral arms.
M66 - All looking good with some faint spiral arms visible but then I lost the guiding half way into the first capture. Just spotted a stacking artifact that needs sorting on this one.
M97 - Well pleased to see a faint smudge on the screen as soon as the telescope stopped moving. I used the
APT aim function to center the target and set the guiding going. Just captured a couple of 500 second images. The Owl face has a lovely hue, definitely coming back to this one another night.
M109 - Some nice spiral structure visible
Thanks for looking.
Regards
Graeme
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Celestron 9.25 f10 SCT, f6.3FR, CGX. Sky-Watcher Evostar-120, HEQ5
ASI1600MM Pro, ASI294MC Pro, ASI224MC
ZWO EFW, ZWO OAG, ASI220MM Mini.
APM 11x70 ED APO Binoculars.
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