M57

[Fay]

Went outside last night with thoughts of doing image of Virgo galaxies. Moon was too big & bright, also I was not sure if I was in the best area or the constellation.  Anyway changed tack, changed all the equipment around & went to M57, but my first image using flats I was very pleased, checked to see if it had worked. So processed again, this morning, without flats & could see all these dust bunnies, so it had worked, well pleased.   

It was 9x300 secs with 20 flats/ flat darks. M57 is much too bright, but I suppose it would have to be done with varying image lengths. Could have got more out of it but M57 was way too bright.

[RobertM]

Looking good Faye and guiding spot on too...

[Rocket Pooch]

Brilliant...

[MarkS]

I'm glad you've got flats sorted now.
The image is great - you can even see IC1296!

Mark

[Fay]

thanks for your comments, glad you think it is ok.

[Mike]

If you look closely the guiding is slightly off and you need to bring the whitepoint down a bit on the histogram. However, it is a darned good image Fay. Well done.