The collection
Gallery
Deep-sky, lunar and aurora images captured from the back garden, one clear night at a time.
Pinwheel Galaxy
Leo Triplet
Sunflower Galaxy
Cygnus Wall
Elephant Trunk Nebula
Whirlpool Galaxy
Northern Lights
Bodes Galaxy
The Moon
Horsehead Nebula
Orion Nebula
The Moon
Bodes Galaxy
M81 · Ursa Major ·
A bright spiral anchoring the M81 group, and a favourite first galaxy for northern imagers.
- Telescope
- William Optics Zenithstar 81 APO
- Camera
- Canon EOS 500D
- Palette
- RGB
- Barlow / reducer
- 0.8x
- Exposure
- 14 × 180s (42m)