Strictly not Astronomy but it is looking up - Lightning Saturday Night

Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5474

A bit grainy but not too bad for a first attempt at this object, like the earlier image of the Whirlpool Galaxy it needs more exposure time.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT mount

Stacked from about 80 x 30s images at ISO-1600

Full frame

Centre cropped

Whirlpool Galaxy - M51

First outing with a new Pentax K-S2 camera.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT mount

Stacked from 80 x 30s images at ISO-1600

And the cropped to the centre