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Astrophoto: Pinwheel Galaxy – Messier 101 – 04/21

The Pinwheel Galaxy – One of the famous Galaxies for Spring evenings. I had to ignore moon to practise more in astrophotography.

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:

Pinwheel Galaxy, M101

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

TelescopeVIXEN ED80sf
Focal Length600mm
Aperture ratio7.5
Erecting Lense
Filter
MountSkywatcher HEQ-5
Goto-ControlEKOS
Mount ControlINDI
Guiding Scope Focal Length162 mm
Guiding Camera Chip4.8mm x 3.6mm, 8bit
Guiding Camera Resolution1280×960
Guiding SoftwareEKOS, INDI
Dithering3 pixel
CameraCANON EOS M100(a)
Methodfocal projection
Camera angle-135°
Camera ControlEKOS, INDI, Gphoto2
Photography Date23.04.2021
Moon86%
Exposure-Time Lights32x180s
SensitivityISO 400
CalibrationframesFlats, Bias
Post Processing Date14.05.2021
Stacking, IntegrationAffinity Photo
Post Processing SoftwareAffinity Photo and SiriL
Image EditingAffinity Photo
Capture PlaceKoblenz, Deutschland
LightpollutionBortle 5
Scattered lightstrong

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