Original size: 4318x2877
DATE
May 7th, 2008
PHOTO
Exposure: 15 x 4 minutes
Focal: 540mm, f/5.4
EQUIPMENT
Imaging Scope: Televue NP101is
Camera:Canon 450D Stock (unmodified)
Guide camera: None
Guide scope: None
Mount: Takahashi EM-400
SITE & CONDITIONS
Montebello OSP, Santa Clara County, CA
Seeing: Bad
Transparency: Bad (fog)
SOFTWARE
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: Photoshop & PixInsight
AUTHOR
Rogelio Bernal Andreo
COMMENTS
This was a bad day for astrophotography. Despite clear skies, the seeing was terrible
this day, and also at the time I started shoting, the fog arrived, so although there
was no fog above me, I was literally IN the fog. But after you've driven all the way up there
and setup your equipment, unless things get really bad, you're just going to shoot and see
hat happens. Considering the situation, the whirpool galaxy didn't turn out too bad, other
than being a tiny object sourrounded by empty space of course :-)
