Saturday 27 October 2012

M81, M82 and the Sunflower galaxy, M63

This autoguided image of M82 was made using the f/4.8, 10" Newtonian using 25 min exposure times through each of the RGB filters plus 40 min exposure time through a Lumicon Night Sky H-alpha filter for luminance:



This autoguided image of M81 was made using the f/4.8, 10" Newtonian using 30 min exposure time through each of the RGB filters, using 5 min sub frames:


The Sunflower Galaxy, M63 was made using the f/4.8, 10" Newtonian, from 60 min total exposure time through each of the RGB filters: