Tuesday, 18 March 2008

M82 the Cigar galaxy


February the 8th '08, a hazy night but this was high up enough to try. The exposure was 10x600 secs, though some more were lost to cloud and thicker haze. The 80ED was used at native 600mm focal length, though I was tempted to add a barlow to increase the image size.
The camera was the SX H9C and guiding was through the 14" Meade LX200 that the 80ED was riding on.
Processing in AA4 and Photoshop 7, not my forte at all. Must practice on that side of the business.

2 comments:

Dave Adshead said...

You can see the galaxy's energetic core in this. Have you got your guide camera back yet?

bjeng said...

Yes, and it works. Of course, it'll be cloudy for days now.