Tuesday, 7 April 2026

New M51

After nearly two years of zero deep sky astrophotography I finally got round to doing a full recalibration of the rig. I chose M51 as my test target.

The image is made up from four 3 hour sessions, 17th, 18th, 19th March and 6th April, 90 x 120s exposures each night. It's looking good so far.

Scope:        Sky-Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Camera:      QHY268C
Mount:        Sky-Watcher NE6 Pro

Images stacked using Deep Sky Stacker and processed using Affinity Photo 2.