GALAXIES with the Canon

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Hi All,
Did some more galaxy chasing last night, and found the Canon (modded) performs as well as the MX7C did, It does require more and longer exposures but will produce good results on faint galaxies, and through an F10 scope (which isnt fast for photography), some interesting stuff here, M61 (a dogs leg galaxy) + three faint galaxies, and again ngc 4656 taken with longer exposures, M65 and M66 which are approx. Mag. 9 Galaxies and some 35 million L.Y. away, these two galaxies plus ngc3628 (not in this picture) form a Triplet group, but as my FOV at F-10 is only 20 x 30 Arc. Min. I couldent get in in the picture, will try with an F-6.3 Focal reducer one day

All Pix. were 6 x 6 Min. Exp., DF taken at the same time/removed- ISO800, Scope LX200-10"/F10 guided.

cheers.............Jim

[Dennis]

Wow - a very productive evening's work Jim, the images look great; well exposed, good guiding and nicely composed. I know how challenging it is to image through an F10 system with a DSLR and you have done a great job.

Cheers

Dennis

[danielsun]

WOW!!! fanastic shots there Jim and great detail!!!

[Robby]

Wow! excellent shots there! First one looks a bit soft, perhaps focus or tracking not quite right, but the other two.... Simply stunning!!
Well done.
Cheers

[allan gould]

Excellent shots - well done

[Striker (Tony)]

Excellant work Jim....the 2nd and 3rd image really stand out to me.

[Lester]

Eye catching images there. Well done Jim.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Ahhh.. you cought my attention with the "GALAXIES" bit. I like your shots! My experience with my 350D (un-mod) on these types of objects hasn't produced much yet, but only given it a quick shot.

Seems you have a reasonable amount of dust on your chip? Quite a few dark spots, I'm guessing that's what it is. But it doesn't detract from the good detail in the galaxies.

MX7C - good comparison to know, interesting that they perform similar.

Look forward to seeing more.



Roger.

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Hi All,
Many thanks for all the comments, and RODGER, you might have a problem with the un-modded 350, I found the same problem before I modded my Camera, it just wasent sensitive enough.

cheers..........Jim