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 🙂
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!
Session details
| Telescope | VIXEN ED80sf |
|---|---|
| Effective focal length | 600 mm |
| Camera | Canon EOS M100 |
| Mount | Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro |
| Guiding equipment | TS-Optics 50 |
| Guiding camera | Omegon 1200b |
| Date of capture | 23 April 2021 |
| Exposure (lights) | 32 × 180 s |
| Total integration | 1 h 36 min |
| Calibration frames | FLATS, BIAS |
| Sensitivity | ISO 400 |
| Capture setup | Ubuntu, EKOS/INDI |
| Processing date | 14 May 2021 |
| Software stack | Affinity Photo, SiriL |
| Location | Koblenz |
| Focal ratio | f/7,5 |
| Image scale | 1,28 ″/px |
| Field of view | 128,0 × 85,3 ′ |
