M81 first light
By ebfaulkner6a at Thu, 05/14/2009 - 7:25pm
This is a one hour image composite, 60 x 1 min exposures thru the new Astro-Tech 6" Ritchey Chretien telescope mounted on the Vixen GPD. I expected more but when you go from 3" ED scope to a 6" RC detail needs longer exposures. However I did an automatic processing in AIP for Windows and then experimented with additional processing manually. I will need to get 3-5 hours exposure or more to get more detail. And experiment with AIP. And I used a diagonal which is a boo boo !
