Monday, March 31, 2025

M81 and M82

My image of M82 and M81 the Bodes Nebula and the Cigar Galaxy taken with my 1300D DSLR Canon camera.The camera was mounted on my 80ED APO Skywatcher Refactor telescope with a field flattener. The telescope was mounted on my EQ5 GOTO mount. Settings were 50s exposure and 800ISO. I captured 220 images, 40 dark frames and 30 Flat frames; all stacked in Sequator and processed in Siril and using star reduction 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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