[AZ-Observing] Re: M51
- From: George Kolb <geokolb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:21:25 -0700
Howard,
Very nice shot I agree. Looks like you are dialing in that new camera. George
Sent from my iPad
On Mar 24, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Howard Anderson <handy13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just posted a shot of M51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy) at:
>
> http://www.astroshow.com/Galaxies/M51.html
>
> Interesting thing about this shot is that there was no usable
> guide star for this shot. So I decided to try 2 minute unguided
> shots of Luminance, Red, Green and Blue using Bin 2 for
> Luminance and Bin 4 for R, G, and B.
>
> The result greatly surprised me. No star trails because my
> alignment is pretty good. Image is a great improvement of
> my older film shots and my older ST-7 camera shot.
>
> Shot could be improved of course with longer guided exposure.
> But I was reasonably happy with how it turned out considering...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
> http://www.astroshow.com
>
>
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