NGC5146, The Cocoon Nebula. This unguided image was taken using a ten inch, f/4.8 reflector with an Atik 314L CCD camera. Sixty second sub-frames were captured and with matching dark frames. The total exposure times were ten minutes for each colour channel and 120 minutes for the luminance channel, H-alpha:
This unguided image of M31 reveals the dust lines of our nearest neighbouring galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy. Sixty second sub frames was captured with matching dark frames. The total exposure time was 15 minutes for each colour channel using a ten inch, f/4.8 reflector and an Atik 314L CCD camera:
