Andromada galaxy with 400 L lens

[hotspur]

This is my first deep sky object taken with

Canon 400 mm prime F5.6 L lens,its a 451 second

exp,on a Vixen GP mount unguided.

I had a canon 450D,is0 800.piggy backed

on scope,I bought a Manfreto ball head.

its a good piece of kit,

thanks for looking.

regards Chris

[bmitchell82]

not a bad shot mate, just need to get your tracking up and running!

[Bolts_Tweed]

Good start mate - keep going

[spearo]

yep
a bit of guiding and you'll be set
otherwise slightly shorter exposures might help
frank

[dpastern]

Tis a good start Chris - a bit of star movement, but not too bad considering. Showing some details of the arm structure too, nice!

Dave

[hotspur]

Yeah,thanks for the feed back,i wont be getting

any tracking soon,i would much rather put the funds

towards my new L series lens,its going to get far more use!

I like the look of that location you have Spearo!

Cheers C

[bmitchell82]

you already have the scope, all you need is a little DSI and your away your guiding will give even the most basic canon lens a big big head start more than any canon L series lens.

[Hagar]

Great start to a new piece of kit but if you want to take long exposures you will have to get some guiding. I think there is probably a lot more data in this image to work with.

Keep at it.

[Kal]

Why not try manual guiding through the scope that you had the lens piggybacked on? People were guiding images before autoguiders came out :)