M51 - Spiral Galaxy in Canes Venatici

[Bill Mattil]

All,

I'm still trying to get a handle on using a new AO8, and getting a cloud free sky to test from. But here is an image of M51 taken from my backyard observatory under really atrocious skies.

33x300s 253mm RCOS Ritchey Chretien @ 2291mm - ST10XME/AO8/CFW10 on the AP1200. Driven by, naturally, ACP. This was also the debut image taken with Maxim V5. The guidestar used was mag 11 (gotta love 2290mm of focal length ) and was guided at 1.2 Hz.

Comments welcomed.

PS: For all my whining about having to take new calibration files for ACP<->Maxim V5 at binning 4 it really wasn't that big a deal .

Regards

Bill