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Hi Mike, No, that's not the one; the one that I recall was at a slightly
lower magnification so the whole galaxy fitted easily into the frame,
was probably not as deep, as the colours were not as saturated, and
was pin sharp.
Yes Cometcatcher, I took my first astropic in1961.Our equipment
was not really non-standard; basic early 35mm camera, 6" f6 Newt.
non motorised EQ mount with manual slow motions. Standard
commercially available film, such as Konica 3200 ISO, Kodak
Tech Pan 2415 for monochrome. For exposures over about 5 mins
we hypered it. The hyper tank was a one off expenditure, and the gas was not expensive. Most cooling was home devised. The only possible
post exposure manipulation was dodging and burning in the dark room,
to avoid washing out the highlights. Manual guiding for an hour was a real pain in the rear end.
Anyway, thanks again fellas for the encouragement; I'll soldier on.
Now I am going to investigate those links you sent me.
Happy snapping raymo.
P.S. I'll see if I can dig that image up, although I haven't been able to work out how to post images to IIS, what with resizing and all that jazz.
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