The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

M51

By ebfaulkner6a at Sat, 05/22/2010 - 3:51pm
M51

Taken Tuesday evening from Whiting, NJ, thru my trusted Orion 80ED on a Celestron CGEM mount.  Set up to do a one hour exposure, due to high "not so thin" clouds I was forced to close after 28 minutes, which is what this exposure totals.  

Tracking looks real good.

Submitted by marzulloj
on Sun, 05/23/2010 - 10:23pm

Tracking looks real good. Nice round stars.
Now you need to find a clear night and go for 2 hours exposure.