First really clear night without a frost saw me out imaging with the telescope till midnight, my favourite galaxy was high in the sky and is called M51 the Whilepool galaxy (the larger galaxy is 'absorbing' the smaller one!!



Thanks for looking
Ron

Hi Ron,


fantastic image. thanks for sharing it.


toto

Yep, it's grand to have a hobby, or three :)

Bill :)

That is beautiful Ron! you should send it to Nat Geo

What 'scope do you use Ron?

Its a Skywatcher MN190 (Massukof/Newtonian) 8" on a powered mount and a Canon1000d camera (guided)
If that helps? 10 exposures of 6 minutes, stacked together.

Cheers
Ron

Thanks for that Ron

Fascinating picture. :thumbs

Terry

Great photo…. around 160 BILLION solar masses according to Wikipedia… does that mean 160 Billion stars? I hope you waved!

Now… 10 exposures… each of 6 mins…. then the processing time to stack the photos… plus set up time for the telescope…. man…. think of the track you could have laid in that time 

Marty

Wow - that looks good - equal to anything seen by Hubble but the real beauty is, it was taken by you Ron..........thumbs

Any chance of a photo of the space station Ron,SWMBO waves at it.:hmm

Thank you Peter (et al..) been stargazing for 4 years now and I soon realized that to see what I really wanted to see I would have to photograph it! Unfortunatly in Engand this has been the worst stargazing winter for many years due to the cloud etc  and a lot of folk have packed up the hobby as a result, which I think is a shame! Anyway I like the summer constellations but not the light nights!

Thanks
Ron

PS: I am putting the laptop in the railway shed so that while the camera's busy (sometimes up to an hour!) I can relax with the railway!!

Damn - I thought she was waving at me Alan but didn't want to say anything………………:cheers

I'll check my photo's tonight Alan, got at least one somewhere!!

Cheers
Ron

I'd be interested in a space station photo too please Ron.

Ron
Does that picture go on the inside roof of the "shed"
Andrew

Is that the Star Ship Enterprise in the top left hand corner I can see….

Great photograph, or I should say photographs !! Either way, it is brilliant. :thumbs Thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Gary.