The Clear Sky Evening
Pinwheel Galaxy
Astrophoto M101 Pinwheel Galaxy Clear Sky 14.
Tree or two weeks of clouds and no clear skies in sight. At the end i had to ignore the 85% moon and shoot something 🙂
Here is the high resolution result on Flickr:
Lessons Leaned
Some alignment issues and being very tired lead to only 1,5 hours exposure time.
Star-Alignment or even finding the object after slewing to the object is still a huge problem for me. But there is hope on the horizon: Platesolving!
Technical overview of Astrophoto M101 Pinwheel Galaxy Clear Sky 14
| Telescope | VIXEN ED80sf |
| Focal Length | 600mm |
| Aperture ratio | 7.5 |
| Erecting Lense | – |
| Filter | – |
| Mount | Skywatcher HEQ-5 |
| Goto-Control | EKOS |
| Mount Control | INDI |
| Guiding Scope Focal Length | 162 mm |
| Guiding Camera Chip | 4.8mm x 3.6mm, 8bit |
| Guiding Camera Resolution | 1280×960 |
| Guiding Software | EKOS, INDI |
| Dithering | 3 pixel |
| Camera | CANON EOS M100(a) |
| Method | focal projection |
| Camera angle | -135° |
| Camera Control | EKOS, INDI, Gphoto2 |
| Photography Date | 23.04.2021 |
| Moon | 86% |
| Exposure-Time Lights | 32x180s |
| Sensitivity | ISO 400 |
| Calibrationframes | Flats, Bias |
| Post Processing Date | 14.05.2021 |
| Stacking, Integration | Affinity Photo |
| Post Processing Software | Affinity Photo and SiriL |
| Image Editing | Affinity Photo |
| Capture Place | Koblenz, Deutschland |
| Lightpollution | Bortle 5 |
| Scattered light | strong |
