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Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy. 2.2 million light years away and you can see it with the naked eye. It has two little companion galaxies, M32 and NGC205 (aka M110). M32 is the one closest in.
Not the world's best image of it but it's the first image I've ever taken with my Skywatcher driven mount/Canon 550D/Sigma 150-600 combination. I've taken wider field shots before with a Tamron 17-50, but off someone else's mount that was all set up for me, and I've imaged through a scope, but again one set up for me. This was my first time with my own mount, which is polar aligned for my patio, but I took it to someone else's house, plonked it down with the north leg pointing to Polaris and didn't touch the alignment. The star alignment I tried to do went wrong because I didn't have the the mounting screw tight enough and the lens moved as the mount slewed. So having done everything wrong I decided to go for an image anyway just to see what happened.
15 x 25 sec + 1 x 40 sec exposures, total time just under 7 mins, at 600mm, f6.3, iso 800. I had convinced myself it was both out of focus and trailed. I didn't expect this............
M31 by Jannyfox on Talk Photography
Not the world's best image of it but it's the first image I've ever taken with my Skywatcher driven mount/Canon 550D/Sigma 150-600 combination. I've taken wider field shots before with a Tamron 17-50, but off someone else's mount that was all set up for me, and I've imaged through a scope, but again one set up for me. This was my first time with my own mount, which is polar aligned for my patio, but I took it to someone else's house, plonked it down with the north leg pointing to Polaris and didn't touch the alignment. The star alignment I tried to do went wrong because I didn't have the the mounting screw tight enough and the lens moved as the mount slewed. So having done everything wrong I decided to go for an image anyway just to see what happened.
15 x 25 sec + 1 x 40 sec exposures, total time just under 7 mins, at 600mm, f6.3, iso 800. I had convinced myself it was both out of focus and trailed. I didn't expect this............
M31 by Jannyfox on Talk Photography