M51 Revisit

 

I've been targeting a lot of single objects lately (Moon, Sun, Jupiter, Saturn), but finally got back to some data gathered in mid-June.  This is Messier 51 and contains roughly 100 billion stars.  It would be pretty amazing to investigate those star systems.

Photo Details

June 19, 2022

Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount

SBIG STF-8300C Camera

Baader MPC Mark III Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector

Skyglow filter

19 subframes at 3 minutes/frame

Total Exposure Time = 57 minutes
Image Acquisition in CCDOps
Image Stacking in Deep Sky Tracker
Image Processing in PhotoShop