Thursday, March 13, 2025

M81 and M82

My image of  the Bode's Nebula M81, and M82 the Cigar Galaxy,taken with my 80ED APO Skywatcher Refractor telescope with a field flattener and my 1300D DSLR Canon camera. The telescope was mounted on my EQ5 GOTO Mount. Despite a bright Moon I captured 60 images. Settings were 45s 800ISO, 30 flat frames and 30 dark frames, all stacked in DSS, processed in Siril and finished in Gimp 2.10. I used an intervalometer to control the camera and a Bahtinov mask  to focus on a bright star. 

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M81 and M82


Chris Playle     

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