106-5

 Slowly getting the hang of it. Red giants in the globular and a bit of colour in the galaxy.

m5 in serpens

m106 in canes venatici

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m100 m5 m56

More 8" reflector stuff over two nights, 18th. and 19th. April. Lucky the first night, not so the second with haze preventing focus aroiund 03:00; the second set of m5 was curtailed. Finished night one with just 2 (two) of a planned 18 on m56. Ah well...

galaxy m100 and friends in coma berenices
atr533 on gso203    80x4min @ hcg100

globular cluster m5 in serpens
atr533 on gso203    72x4min @hcg100

globular cluster m56 in lyra 
atr533 on gso203    2x4min @ hcg100

   

m13

the gso203 workhorse

 

Finally put the refractor to rest and got out the 203. Still galaxy season so after the galaxies swung west, the big globulars rose. Good seeing with guiding rarely above 0,4"rms.

Big callout too for Frankin at setiastro.com. His SetiAstroSuitePro software should take most of the credit...

globular cluster m13 in hercules
atr533c on gso203    (best of) 70x4min @ hcg100

m94

 With apologies to all the residents of m94, note to self to do this properly. It needs loads more time. Hopefully then there'll be colour as well as the outer halo. Alas, the calima hit around midnight, after only 90 minutes. 

galaxy m94 in canes venatici
atr533c on gso203    26x4min @ hcg100

a bit more outer halo

Then added more sessions. This was 167x4min. It worked but there's some red haze in the background. Wondering if this is the poor quality ir filter...?

lan

                                                    

192.168.3.

astro1       1
astro2       2
cocina      19
cocina2     21
bmax-b4      5
z420        13
z440        15

reproc

 A few rethinks.

m82

m63

m3

m106