Made my way out into the Arizonan desert last night for my first dark sky with my new SW 100ED scope and CG5 mount. Wonderfully dark skies and only a light breeze. I am thoroughly impressed with my new setup, which (mostly) performs better than my 8" dob. In between our visual survey of the sky I took a few shots with my 500D and x0.85 reducer/flattener:
- M42 is 30 x 15sec, ISO200
- M51 is 25 x 2min, ISO3200
The wildly different ISO and exposure times were part of my testing the new setup, I am pretty happy with the how steady the tracking was over 2 mins!
Comments or suggestions on post processing are welcomed. Thanks for looking
