My First M-51 in color

Hi Guys,

The weather is nice here.

I decided to use my ST-10XME in binning 1x1 for the first time with my Meade 12" UHTC OTA.

My target was M51. My 12" OTA was at f/6.9 with the Meade f/6.3 focal reducer. You could see in my picture coma and a few strange stars, I have again a lot of problems with the Meade reducer and too with my Bob's Knobs (I decided to remove them for the original Meade collimation screws, less problems apparently). I wait again my AP 0.67x CCD Telecompressor from my dealer.


The link for the image & information at :



http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/immonth.html



Enjoy !!!

Best Regards,

Florent

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Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais-----------------FRANCE

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Losmandy HGM TITAN / Gemini Goto mount
Meade 12" UHTC SCT OTA
William Optics FLT-110 & Megrez 80 Triplet APO OTAs
SBIG ST-10XME/CFW-8A/AO-7

I like it. It's one of the very few images that I've seen of M51 where the foreground stars didn't look like artificial dots. Good work.

Beautiful shot Florent!
You've managed to capture great detail & color...


Thank you for sharing!


Ivan