Hello all!
Yesterday night I had a chance to go imaging with my fellow club members! ! As usual the company was fantastic and the skies were absolutely beautiful from the Florida Everglades!
It was first light for my Pentax 125 SDP and PHD Guiding. I did a trial run a couple of days ago but I did not process any images, as I did not think they were worth anything.
This is NGC 891 and Abell 347. I have counted 40+ galaxies in the image using Cartes Du Ciel as reference.
This is almost full frame: I cropped a couple of hundred pixels from the right side to center 891. Resized for viewing convenience.
Pentax 125 SDP
Pentax 75 SDHF (guide scope)
Tak. EM200 guided
Canon 40D unmodded
21 x 5 min. @ ISO1600
5 x 5 min Darks
Would love to receive comments/suggestion/critiques!
Thanks for looking!
Emanuele
BIgger picture (1600 px):
http://www.backyardskies.com/BackyardSkies/NGC891.html
Very small preview: