Saturday morning, I used my 127mm MCT and my Touptek GPM462M monochrome camera with an IR pass filter. The filter is intended to improve the seeing.
6/29/2024 The Sun
6/28/2024 First Light with a Samyang 135mm f/2 ED UMC
Thursday night I had my first chance to use my new (to me) Samyang 135mm f/2 ED UMC prime lens with my full spectrum modified Canon T5i. I used a clip-in light pollution filter as well. This is 36 2 minute subs of the North America Nebula combined.
6/28/2024 The Return of Galaxy 9
M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy (aka Galaxy 9), has been giving me grief this year. I’ve tried to image it a few times but something happened each time. Finally, Thursday night I was able to get a decent image. This is made from 44 two minute images with my C11 at f/6.3 with an Antlia Quadband light pollution filter and my ZWO ASI294MC Pro. I started with 51 images but seven of them had satellite trails in them.
