Messier 5 - with insects and all!

[Emanuele]

What a challenge the other night!
Despite the half moon, me and my imaging buddy went out to the Everglades National Park. It was a beautiful night but the mosquitos, bugs, and insects where really insane. We had to wait in the car for a while because there was no way to step out.

In any case, I wanted to try a few things out with the setup. Dithering, AstroArt 4, and just fiddle around.

Before all that though, I thought I'd image M5 for a few.

TEC140 @ F7
SXVF-M25C
Tak EM400
Exposures: 52 minutes total, 26 x 2 min, no darks, no bias, no flats.

Faint fuzzies around the image: upper left, bottom right, lower left, top
center...
Also the star in the lower right side of the image is a binary star: the small
companion can be seen on the left side.

Click on the thumbnail for a bigger image (1500px):
http://www.backyardskies.com/Backyar...ormation_.html

Smaller preview is attached.

Always appreciate comments and suggestions!
Thank you for looking and clear skies!
Emanuele

[sheeny (Al)]

What a lovely image!

Nice work, E!

Al.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Yeah nice. Lovely colors.

[Emanuele]

Thank you Al and Marc!


M13 will be up soon! Another image I shot the same night...

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Real nice image
Got bug problems here too, had the repellent on the arms and neck last night, so they went for my ankles.

Bill

[Emanuele]

Thank you Bill! Yep, sorry about your bug problems! NO matter how much repellant I put on, i still get bitten! Incredible!

Anyway, I just realized something not good at all: my images are displaying differently in different browsers, and 95% are really bad in FireFox.

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Seems they like some of us more than others. The little blighters will fly for miles for a piece of me.

Bill

[scopemankit (Chris)]

great imade. bugger the bugs we have them too!

[Emanuele]

Some thing happens to me BIll!
Thank you Chris!