Open cluster M103 in Cassiopeia,

Hi All

Here is an image of M103 this is my first time guiding so I picked Something nice and easy to start with. I picked Cassiopeia to point the Telescope at knowing I would not have to worry about the equatorial flip.There is so much to think about when guiding.It is alot more work than doing planetary imaging know one said it was going to be easy.


Image taken on the 9th September 2007 New Haven Observatory Balbriggan.Through a Celestron 80ED piggybacked on a CGE14" Telescope. Guiding was done with PHD Guiding, ATIK 16HR CCD Camera RED 30x2min GREEN 30x2min, BLUE30x2min Exposures, Darks 5x2min No Flats 1x1 Binning.Processed in ImagesPlus V2.8 And PhotoShop CS2.

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Looks to me like your getting the hang of the deep sky stuff there Carl and the camera seems to be working great,i just wish my own atik would hurry up and arrive :x

Nice. Good focus, steady tight stars and colour to boot!

Dave

Nice work Carl! I agree with Dave's assessment fully.

Welcome to the "long dark side" ... you will never go back. :lol:

Very good Carl, There's great colour there - it's such a lovely cluster

Keith..

A very nice image there Carl, good star colour and a perfect background.