M63 Sunflower Galaxy
Friday, April 24th 2009 - 22:00 (UTC) - focal ratio f/4.5
Conditions during imaging were far from perfect. There was some wind present which made the stars look like little stripes instead of round. Transparancy and seeing were also not very good.
In total I used 238 images of 10 seconds exposure each to get this final image.
The images were manually selected, and stacked using my own experimental stacking program, which seems to work pretty nice. The stack was then processed in Photoshop and Iris to enhance some detail, and fix most of the not so round stars.
equipment used
Meade Starfinder 10
Philips Vesta Pro 680k webcam - SC3 with b/w ICX424AL-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10
Philips Vesta Pro 680k webcam - SC3 with b/w ICX424AL-E ccd