Friday, May 23, 2025

The Needle galaxy

My image of the Needle Galaxy, taken with my Canon 1300D DSLR camera, mounted on a Skywatcher 80mm ED APO Refractor telescope with a field flattener. The telescope was mounted on my EQ5 Skywatcher GOTO mount. I used an intervalometer to control the camera and a Bahtinov mask to focus on a bright star. I captured 90 images, 30 flat frames, and 30 dark frames. The exposure was 50s at 800 ISO. My images were stacked in Sequator and processed in Siril and GIMP 2.10.

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The Needle galaxy


Chris Playle

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