200mm F/5.6 lens, 12x60s exposure at iso1600.

It seems like ages since the skies were clear last time. Must be around 2 months I think. Last evening however was good for astrophotography again. My target was the Orion nebula, or M42. I took 40 sub-exposures, each 60s long, but half of them were out of focus , and a couple of the [...]

The Pleiades shot with a Canon 20D and a 70-200/4L set to 73mm and F/5.6. A stack of 30 expousers, each 20s at iso800 (total exposure 30x20s = 10min). Unguided EQ-6 mount.

The Andromeda galaxy shot with a Canon 20D using a 70-200/4L lens set to 126mm and F/5.6. A stack of 17 frames at iso800, each exposed for 30 secods (total exposure 17x30s = 8.5 min). Unguided EQ-6 mount. A hint of M31′s smaller companions M32 and M110 is visible.

A little left of Regulus and where Saturn is right now in Leo there’s a group of three Messier objects: Two spiral galaxies M95 (magnitude 11.4), and M96 (magnitude 10.1), and an elliptical galaxy M105 (magnitude 10.2). This is a stack of around ten 8 s exposures through an EF 70-200/4L set to 200mm and [...]

30s exposure at ISO400 of the Pleiades. Again some light clouds rolling in around 22:30 preventing further photos…