Meade LX90 8" UHTC at ~f5 on HEQ5, QHY5 on Meade finderscope, Baader Alan Gee II Telecompressor, Canon 1000D modified, Astronomik CLS-CCD filter, APT,PHD, EQASCOM, CdC.
Processed in Deep Sky Stacker, bilinear de-bayering, Kappa-sigma stacking (kappa 2, iterations 2). 1hr 15mins in 300s subs.
Full size. (http://www.ancientlight.amateur-astronomy.org//images/M3_RotherValley_20120525.jpg)
(http://www.ancientlight.amateur-astronomy.org//images/M3_RotherValley_20120525_sm.jpg)
Great images Duncan, all of them, and lovely colours.
All the images over the weekend have come out very well with Carole's and Fay's but was just wondering whether Fay managed to do the star trails?
Well done Duncan and the rest of the imagers from the weekend. ;)
Tony G
Looking good - you've got some good star colours there, which is all important for those globular clusters.
The flattener/reducer looks to be perfectly aligned.
You should be pleased with that one.
Mark
I agree with Tony and Mark, it's certainly been a bumper harvest weekend for the imagers !
Your on a roll, and just think I slept through all of it :-)