M51 - b/w bare bones wide field

This winter has been brutal as far as cloud cover and snow. The good news is my well will probably produce for another year. The bad news is no imaging from mid November until March 5th when I took this very meager image.

Nothing fancy.... just 60 minutes of M51 through a clear filter.

I am hopeful to get more data...some day.

Tom

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"Nothing fancy"??? That's gorgeous! I especially like the background galaxies.

Pat

BEAUTIFUL! 8)
How about some scope/camera data?

Wow!!!!!!!...Not bad for "nuttin fancy"

What scope, mount and camera did you use?



John CCD-Freak

Hi Tom,

Just ducking my head in real quick here. Nice shot! I really like the background galaxies! Congrats on keeping your well full We don't need a well, but we're in the middle of our worst snowfall in about six years (1 foot and still falling!).

Eric

Holy cow Tom!

Thats beautiful,so deep and smooth 8O

All in an hour!I would have guessed several at least.

Hope you get clear skies soon,


Jason

Beautiful. Personally I like black and white pics of galaxies. The detail, and contrast, are outstanding! Reminds me of the old days when people like Kim Zussman were producing images we all admired. Regards.......Tom.

Very nice.

Greg.

Tom,

That's a very nice image and one that I prefer over many RGB M51 images I've seen here. I've always considered monochrome images to be "more scientific" than tricolors. Certainly, the RGB images are pretty to look at, but I think mono kinda takes me back to early film, science only, astrophotography before astronomers had the wonderful CCD and digital tools we have today. It's kinda nostalgic in a way.

I was a fine art photographer for many years and I always shot black and white film. So, in essence I still consider monochrome as the "purist" approach. Such is the case here with your M51. Keep up the great work.

Love to print and frame that shot - it is spectacular!!!

B&W shot at its finest!

Really great detail!

Thanks for sharing!