M81 - with really bad focal reducer



M51 with some color and more details

Messier 5, L: 68 frames@8 sec., R,G,B: 30 frames at 8 seconds

Taken this morning between 4:30 and 5:30AM, LRGB combination and processing done in GIMP.



After PhotoShop post-processing by rigel123/Warren

Some more tries at Saturn and M51 (Whirlpool galaxy) in early morning. Tried to get RGB on M51, but the dawn messed up the G and B takes... too bad!

M15 again



And M42 with some color at last using separate shots of LRGB filters (thanks to rigel123 for the LRGB combining and post-processing).

Another M42, larger field of view, some swirls visible to the left.

M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy

M33's Core

The same of M15, processed differently. The fact that the telescope's tracking was really bad is very visible. The core of the cluster is however much better.

M15 taken with 200 exposures of 2 seconds each. Among those, 121 hand-picked (some light but persistent winds blurred quite a few).




Picture was taken quite precipitously (focus not quite right, neither scope nor camera cooled down), after I saw a curious object cross the camera's FOV pretty slowly. No idea what it is (it was not visible with the naked eye) but I'd be curious to know! Below are the three first exposures, which include that object.