The Clear Sky Evening
Bode’s Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy
Astrophoto M81 Bode’s Galaxy – M82 Cigar Galaxy – Clear Sky 13.
These two galaxies were more or less a technical test on an evening with light foggy clouds. Sky was clear for about 30 minutes and i was able to complete my tests and shoot this photo.
Here the result of 30 Minutes with dithering in the high resolution version on Flickr:
Lessons Learned
Since my CANON M100 is not supported on Windows Systems when it comes to astro-control-software, i switched to a Linux System using INDI and EKOS. The primary technical test was trying to dither and it was a real milestone for me.
Technical overview of Astrophoto M81 Bode’s Galaxy – M82 Cigar Galaxy – Clear Sky 13
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 | 0° |
Camera Control | EKOS, INDI, Gphoto2 |
Photography Date | 12.04.2021 |
Moon | <1% |
Exposure-Time Lights | 10x180s |
Sensitivity | ISO 400 |
Calibrationframes | Flats, Bias |
Post Processing Date | 16.05.2021 |
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 |