M51 Whirpool Galaxy
I did this image in low resolution JPEG and not high resolution RAW. Also, I should have taken more images. Maybe this Saturday, if the weather is good and there are not to many meteors to disfigure my images, I will have another go.
Aug 6, 2007
Location: DAO, upper parking lot.
Optics: Orion 100EDFlourite at f9
Camera: Nikon D50 modified
Exposures: 50 light frames of 30 sec, ISO 800.
Process: Calibrated with 10 flats and 10 dark in ImagesPlus, Photoshop CS2 and Noise Ninja.