Meade DSI Color II/ 300 second (20 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/203×812mm/LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian/stacked in DeepSkyStacker/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Long-duration tracked exposure of the M-22 globular cluster taken at the prime focus of my 6" Astrophysics refractor telescope.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

M16 and M17

Canon 400mm f5.6 stop down to f6.3

Sony a7ii astro mod

Due NB filter

Cline River Photography, Photo by Edwina Podemski.

View or purchase items from our portfolio at: www.clineriverphotography.com

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 11m 30s (13 x 30s) RGB + (10 x 30s)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: None

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Sony alpha 7ii astro-mod

Canon 400mm f5.6 at f6.3

STC Astro-MS filter

from Dec 22 to Feb 23

total integration time around 13 hours or more

101 Must-See Cosmic Objects: The Andromeda Galaxy

astronomy.com/magazine/news/2022/11/101-must-see-cosmic-o...

Meade DSI Color/ 750 second (50 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Stacked in Registax/Composited and leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Meade DSI Color/ 160 second (20 8sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Meade DSI Color/ 400 second (50 8sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 22m LRGB exposure (44 x 30s RGB and Lum Exposures)

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Meade DSI Color/ 24 minute composite RGB exposure/Prime focus/Focal Reducer/114×500mm Telescope/Stacked in DeepSkyStacker/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

I'm continuing to add new images to my stack of M31 to get an ever longer exposure time. This should bring out greater detail and subtlety.

Meade DSI Color/ 720 second (12 60sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/Focal Reducer/114×500mm Telescope/Stacked in DeepSkyStacker/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 51m (204x15s exposures) LRGB exposure

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Meade DSI Color/ 7m 45s RGB exposure/Prime focus/Focal Reducer/114×500mm Telescope/Stacked in DeepSkyStacker/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. This was the last photo of the marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

I restacked some of my previous images of Andromeda to create this composite image. Its total exposure time is somewhere around 25 minutes. I'll be continuing to take images of it in the near future to add to the detail of the galaxy.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 4m 45s

Focus Method: Autofocus

F-stop: F/5

Focal Length: 38mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: none

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: composited/levelled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Labelled in Photoshop

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 7m 18s (7 frames) ISO 800 RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: Yes - PHD Guiding

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 450s (30x15s exposures) LRGB exposure

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Stacked: Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Soddy Daisy, TN

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Meade DSI Color II/ 160 second (20 8sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/203×812mm/LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

This is the first image I took with my LXD75 telescope as well as the first image using a Meade DSI Color II

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Meade DSI Color/ 160 second RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

a poor attempt at M46. star drift is obvious.

more info on M46 here: seds.org/messier/m/m046.html

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Meade DSI Color/ 225 second (15 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Meade DSI Color/ 5 minutes (20 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Composited in DeepSkyStacke/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm (Semi-apochromatic Refractor)

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 350D

7x600s @ ISO800 (70min)

Lacerta MGEN2

Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

Postprocessing in PS5.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

The Andromeda Galaxy taken with a Meade DSI - 14 frame grayscale composite image - at prime focus on my 114x500mm telescope. I believe that most of the faintest stars you see in this picture are probably noise.

Sombrero Galaxy - M104