M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
21 Million light years away, this glitzy spiral galaxy is a faint and somewhat challenging target for a small telescope. This monochome image is another in my Uncool and Misguided Series this spring of urban deep sky targets shot with an uncooled mono planetary camera on an unguided mount.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/1.08X Borg flattener/ QHY5III174M camera/ iOptron CubePro. Luminance channel only 100 minutes of 4 second exposures, collected in SharpCap livestacks and processed in PixInsight. From my Bortle 7 (SQM-L 18.7) yard in Westchester County 10 miles north of New York City.
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
21 Million light years away, this glitzy spiral galaxy is a faint and somewhat challenging target for a small telescope. This monochome image is another in my Uncool and Misguided Series this spring of urban deep sky targets shot with an uncooled mono planetary camera on an unguided mount.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/1.08X Borg flattener/ QHY5III174M camera/ iOptron CubePro. Luminance channel only 100 minutes of 4 second exposures, collected in SharpCap livestacks and processed in PixInsight. From my Bortle 7 (SQM-L 18.7) yard in Westchester County 10 miles north of New York City.