Messier Objects
I highly recommend a book on Charles Messier and the creation of this catalogue - Atlas of Messier Objects, 2008 by Ronald Stoyan.
Note: This gallery should be automatically sorted by Messier #.
Messier M7 - NGC6475 - Ptolemy's Cluster in Scorpius - 2/10/2013 (Processed cropped stack)
An open cluster of ~80 stars (the bigger brighter ones in the central area) about 1000 Light Years distant from us. It is located in Scorpius, not far from Sagittarius, the central portion of our Milky Way galaxy, the dust lanes and dense star fields seen in the background.
Cropped to reduce vignetting as no Flat frames were used.
DeepSkyStacker 3.3.3b51 Stacked 85% of 10 Images ISO 800 90 Sec, 32 DARK, 75 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5
Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA Field Flattener, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 106' x 159' , Ambient 14C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress Superstar (mono) CCD guide camera and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
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From 2013 Where to next?
talykus
on October 20, 2013I don't even know what you said above about how you took it, but it's a really amazing shot. I didn't know it was possible to capture that many stars.
Kimbomac
on October 5, 2013Long live the clear weather for you!
Kimbomac
on October 5, 2013Gorgeous! Like magical fairy dust!