The 15th of February, me and my imaging buddies went to 27N, both for the STS119 launch and for imaging afterwards.
The night turned out pretty good, but started with some difficulties: the Park Rangers were giving tickets to fishermen and they had their headlights right on us, so after waiting for about 45 minutes I decided to turn north and image M81 & M82.
I only got 2 hours because I was having some difficulties in Maxim.
Pentax 125 SDP & Mini Borg 50
Tak EM400
SXVF-M25C
Maxim DL
This was the first time I was using the IDAS LPS, since 27N is in a mildly light polluted area.
This is a nice galaxy pairing Emanuelle. 5min subs is fine for the extended object, but this field is notorious for its integrated flux nebula or galactic cirrus (whatever you want to call it). Go deeper, 900s subs or longer to extract it out. It makes for a very pleasing image when you nail it. Thanks for sharing, well done.
Thank you so very much to all of you guys! I am so glad everyone likes it!
In truth it is really not enough time and with only 5 min. subs! I'd like to go deeper on this one, but I am still not sure how to judge how deep is deep enough in order not to overexpose the image/background with light pollution!
Jase: thank you for the suggestion! Yes, I'd like to get the IFN, but I was in a fairly light polluted site and didn't want to end up with no subs!
Thank you so very much to all of you guys! I am so glad everyone likes it!
In truth it is really not enough time and with only 5 min. subs! I'd like to go deeper on this one, but I am still not sure how to judge how deep is deep enough in order not to overexpose the image/background with light pollution!
still a great effort and you should be proud for capturing that bubble in M82 so well!
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
We love our southern skies and quite rightly so but I don't think we have such a magnificanet bright and close galaxy pairing?...do we?