Northern Targets

[Saturnine]

Hi All

Following in the spirit of of several others on here who have taken some fine images of targets that are low in the north for us I had a chance to try and capture some on the weekend despite the very strong westerly winds during Saturday that thankfully abated during the night.
M33 , the Triangulum Galaxy and NGC1499, the California Nebula.
ED80 & 0.8 Reducer / Flattener
Modded Canon 450D Sensor temp from 8 to 12 deg. ( was a cool night with the wind chill ).
HEQ5, Guided in PHD, 80mm F5 guide scope

Taken from a dark site NW of Goulburn. Each image a combination of 120 & 180 sec. subs of about 80 mins total each.

Also did M31, Andromeda Galaxy, but it came out very noisy.

[CalvinKlein]

Nice result for a modded 450D ! That cool air would have helped a great deal. Tasteful processing too.

[Ant0nio]

Nicely done Jeff, both images are very pleasing. :thumbsup:
Best,
Tony

[casstony]

Nice pics Jeff. I'm trying to scrape in M31 and the California nebula tonight.

[Saturnine]

Thanks for the comments and encouragement guys, appreciated. Was going to post the M31 taken on the same night but the core is terribly blown out and will require a major rework. Seeing all the other M31 and M33 images taken and posted on here in the past few weeks is more encouragement to try for some other more northern objects rather than the "easier" southern objects.

[xelasnave]

Most impressive Jeff.
I think most of us have got a surprise how low to the horizon that we can image.
Unfortunately I built my observatory on the premise of capturing stuff directly above or close to it.
Alex

[Saturnine]

Nothing a chainsaw can't rectify Alex. But no, I like trees and the creatures that call them home so not a great idea.