This spring I am harvesting the galaxies from the sky. After the M104 Sombrero I pointed the telescope into the constellation Ursa Major and focused on M109 Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy, which is located approximately 83 light years from us. Unfortunately, one bright star – Phad was in the visual vicinity and created diffraction spike spreading through the picture. So next time I will change the composition.
Telescope: | Newton 254/1000 mm |
Aperture: | 254 mm |
Focal length: | 1000 mm |
Mount: | Gemini GF53f |
Autoguiding: | Orion Mini, TS 50/160 mm |
Camera: | Moravian instruments G2 8300M @-30C |
Corrector: | GPU |
Filters: | Baader L, RGB |
Exposure: | 25xL 300s bin 1x1, 15xRGB 200 s bin 2x2 |
Date: | 2017-03-29 |