M83 Pinwheel Galaxy

[EzyStyles]

My first galaxy. This was almost impossible to see. It was a fluke to find it unless i need glasses :P . Struggling with the 8". The powerpack ran out of power in the middle. Hopefully i can get a better shot at it tonight if the rain god doesnt come.

Sore back , very sore back.

[h0ughy]

at least you found it, I think you will have to do a really good job and drift align before you start to image this next time, then you will nail it.

[ving]

lol ezy!
good one :)

tho like the elongated stars in the star cluster picture you posted with the stars which had a stretched appearence becuase of poor alignment causeing said elongated appearence this picture too shows an elonagated or stretched look to the stars which would normally have a round rather than oval look to them and not stretched or elongated.... so better alignment will reduce the said elongatedness to create a more elongatedless star look.... man do i have a headache....

nice one :)

[Hitchhiker]

Eric, you're really turning in some great stuff - excellent work for a single 20 odd second image!

All you need to do now is work out your polar alignment issues, take multiple images and stack and you'll have some really spectacular images.

Well Done!

[Dennis]

An image to be rightly proud of, you overcame many challenges to get this - well done!

Cheers

Dennis

[Striker]

I'm not familiar with the DSI but what made you do 21 second exposure's.

Just curious.

Now that you have a sniff of all this astro imaging you wont stop...it's very addictive.

[janoskiss]

I'm impressed you managed to point the scope at it at all. No mean feat! Indeed it is invisible from our light polluted back yards, and filters won't help with galaxies.

[davidpretorius]

top stuff again.

this DSO stuff is really hard (don't tell 1ponders i said this), so well done.

[EzyStyles]

Thanks guys. I think it is your encouragments to keep me going!!. I started all these alittle over a month ago and now im really addicted to it. my brain is overcramp with astro information. have to get that accurate polar aligment stop my laziness. ill give it ago at it tonight. Was quite hard for me to find the octan's.

Will do Adam, next time ill start stacking the images. i think i rush into things. :P

Thanks Steve. it was more a trial and error just to point my tele to it and a fluke! i keep taking long expo's images around the place (heaps) until i saw abit of fuzz from the galaxy swirls. arhh the satisfy feeling :)

[EzyStyles]

Tony, reason why i take 21 sec exposures is because my darks are set to 21 sec exposures. I can increase this to a few minutes but i have to take my darks again which i can't be stuff waiting :)

[Itchy]

Hi Ezy,

Your enthusiasm to get images done is commendable. However, if there is one thing I have learned about Astro Imaging is that patience is a key ingredient. The extra effort and time taken to do a set of darks (and to do every other little thing, like polar alignment, focus ,framing, flats, bias etc etc) can be the difference between an Ok image and a great one.

You'll get there!

Cheers

[matt]

Onya Ezy

I've not been game to try my hand at DSOs... so kudos to you, my friend.

I'm still very early in my planetary imaging education. That's enough for me to worry about before the need to master critical polar alignment sends me stark raving mad.

I honestly, truly, tips me lid to some of the DSO imagers at this website who capture the images they so regularly post.

Awesome work lads, admired by all us planetary folk:thumbsup: