am I going crazy, or am I seeing a moving object in the top left hand corner? I'm seeing 3 dots in 3 different colours very close to each other (Green Blue and Red).
What the heck is that/are they?
edit:
I took a look at the picture I did of M51 on 20/06:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=77238
There's a faint smudge in the same orientation as where I'm seeing the 3 coloured blips in your picture. I only found it in mine because it's much more immediately obvious in your picture due to the colour differences.
I took mine at 10:51pm New Mexican Time 20/06/2011. When did you take yours?
I've also compared to an image from this thread:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...&highlight=M51
The more I compare yours and mine to the image in the third link, the more I'm certain of it:
No weird blur/ 3 object thingy in that image that I could find, but that was taken 05/06 or earlier...
mebbie it's a comet?
further edit:
checked the Deep Sky Survey site. Pulled up M51 and found those 3 objects. So I guess it's unlikely to be a comet. Pity that.
makes me wonder why it came out as 3 different colours in your image though.