Castro Valley Sunday Night

by Richard Crisp


Fremont Peak may have been a bust last night, I don't know because I did not go.

Instead I remained home and imaged from my backyard using the new 18" cassegrain.

Lest ye think I have forgotten how (I did), I decided to image some galaxy targets with this beast instead of my usual nebular fare.

The targets du jour were M108 and M109.

I settled on 10 minute subexposures and managed to get 13 of them for M108 before moving over to M109. I took 19 exposures in M109

I discovered a problem with my filter wheel that compromised my flats but at least I understand what happened. So these aren't as well processed as I'd like to have done.

M108 (2hrs 10minutes)

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m108_mk1sn2_page.htm

M109 (3hrs 10minutes)

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m109_mk1sn2_page.htm


Posted on sf-bay-tac Feb 20, 2006 13:48:09 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.2 Feb 27, 2006 20:28:07 PT