Please don't look too closely at this one. Learned the hard way you can't dither or filter out noise with only 2 subs each of RGB, but was feeling my way with the whole RGB thing through the QHY9 in May. This was one of my first objects at the SPSP, leaving me with only 3 Messier objects to shoot that are (theoretically
) visible from this latitude. Still, this did give me confidence to track longer subs for longer periods on latter objects at that star party with the QHY9 setup, and pleasing to get a bit of detail in the nucleus of the galaxy even if the colour is $#@! Cropped fairly heavily to compensate for poor flats and a stray object passing through a couple of frames.
I did in fact glimse M101 in a single frame one night between some low bushes, but alas failed to save the pic (was only a 20sec finder frame). Quite a few people thought I'd lost it I think when I said what I was doing with the scope down that low...
I WILL get it one day from Ron's when we finally get to see through the clouds autumn next year.....
Anyway, here's M106 - spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici
LRGB 20:10:10:10 all 5mins subs
QHY9 through the 8" with MPCC
Rest of my Messier work to date at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/UserRobF...102105Possible#