M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

19:34 26/3/2006 UTC

I went to dark site with my friend to try imaging with my Newton. Guiding worked quite fine, but stars weren't totally round, and some of the frames weren't really acceptable, but I stacked them anyway. Clouds interrupted the exposure session. I was prepared to expose a total of 2 hours. Anyway, it was fantastic to see this beautiful galaxy to come out so well. It was actually very well captured in one minute test exposure also. I think it might have had better resolution with shorter exposures due to tracking problems. I am definitely going to try this again!