Andromada galaxy with 400 L lens

[hotspur (Chris)]

This is my first deep sky object taken with

Canon 400 mm prime F5.6 L lens,its a 451 second

exp,on a Vixen GP mount unguided.

I had a canon 450D,is0 800.piggy backed

on scope,I bought a Manfreto ball head.

its a good piece of kit,

thanks for looking.

regards Chris

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

not a bad shot mate, just need to get your tracking up and running!

[Bolts_Tweed (Mark)]

Good start mate - keep going

[spearo (Frank)]

yep
a bit of guiding and you'll be set
otherwise slightly shorter exposures might help
frank

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Tis a good start Chris - a bit of star movement, but not too bad considering. Showing some details of the arm structure too, nice!

Dave

[hotspur (Chris)]

Yeah,thanks for the feed back,i wont be getting

any tracking soon,i would much rather put the funds

towards my new L series lens,its going to get far more use!

I like the look of that location you have Spearo!

Cheers C

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

you already have the scope, all you need is a little DSI and your away your guiding will give even the most basic canon lens a big big head start more than any canon L series lens.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Great start to a new piece of kit but if you want to take long exposures you will have to get some guiding. I think there is probably a lot more data in this image to work with.

Keep at it.

[Kal (Andrew)]

Yeah,thanks for the feed back,i wont be getting any tracking soon,i would much rather put the funds towards my new L series lens,its going to get far more use!

Why not try manual guiding through the scope that you had the lens piggybacked on? People were guiding images before autoguiders came out