Thursday 30 April 2020

M97 and M108

This image was taken using an 80mm f/6.3 refractor on a Vixen Atlux mount.
PHD autoguiding was used with an Atik 383L mono CCD camera and a set of Astronomik filters.

10 min sub-frames were captured with matching dark-frames. Flat-fields were used to reduce the effect of vignetting in the final image.

The total exposure times were 20 min using a SII filter, 20 min using an OIII filter and 90 min using a H-alpha filter.

M97 and M108

Closer view