Group of galaxies: M105, NGC 3384, NGC 3389, M96
The third object, i was really impatient, was a group of galaxies with M105. I did 30 exposures with 60s each at ISO 800. Here the stacked image. (Stacked in December 2021 with Affinity using DARKS and BIASES and also some FLATS from 2 weeks later). I simply had no result with enough pixels.
Lessons Learned
This evening i used my unmodded CANON EOS M100. The mount control was still used with APT. To control the M100 i used the iOS App “CC & C” which works perfect.
What i really hated for several month was the fact that i did not really found the objects in the sky with my goto mount. I always had to use the arrow keys of the mount control to find the object. It took me several month to fix that later.
Focusing with a Bahtinov-Mask worked really well.
Session details
| Telescope | VIXEN ED80sf |
|---|---|
| Effective focal length | 600 mm |
| Camera | Canon EOS M100 |
| Mount | Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro |
| Date of capture | 20 February 2021 |
| Exposure (lights) | 32 × 60 s |
| Total integration | 32 min |
| Calibration frames | FLATS, DARKS, BIAS |
| Sensitivity | ISO 800 |
| Processing date | 21 February 2021 |
| Software stack | Deep Sky Stacker, Affinity Photo |
| Location | Koblenz |
| Focal ratio | f/7,5 |
| Image scale | 1,28 ″/px |
| Field of view | 128,0 × 85,3 ′ |
