M51 & Panstarrs

[JB80 (Jarrod)]

It's by no means the greatest pic but I'm quite happy with it and M51 is also a first for me.
Still got no idea what I'm doing so any pointers will help.

This was the best of a bad lot, my subs were too dark to stack the comet itself.

It's a touch over 30 minutes worth of 45second subs at 270mm, f9.0, ISO1600. With the 450D and Polarie.

No flats as I can never get them right with just camera and lens.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Great composition!

You can stack manually if individual subs are too faint for DSS to detect by holding down the shift key and place the cursor over the comet.

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Great effort considering the very high focal ratio. I think you've done really well.
-Cam

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Good job on a difficult target

Jo

[JB80 (Jarrod)]

Thanks all.

Kevin, excellent! Thanks for that I thought there was something like that but I had completely forgotten that shift key option.
Thanks for that.