M31 through HDB Window

[PETER LOO]

Last night the sky was opened for a couple of hours, test on M31 through my balcony window using the newly acquired (pre-own) GP2 Mount, Meade 80ED, using a 50 mm guide scope & Orion Star Shoot auto-guider. 1.5 mins: ISO 800 X 20 shots - (Failed guiding as the star did not move enough probably due to guide star taken form Andromeda galaxy region was too weak for this 50mm guide scope), it means that the shots taken is still Un-guided. Filter used is: Orion Skyglow- Made in Korea

[rcj]

nice and clean! looking forward to more. was at balcony but cloudy at my area last night. will try again later.

[Gary]

Nice photo and balcony setup Peter! Thanks for sharing. Tonight might be clear again.

[lotsafruit]

Nice, i was looking for it using bino, but i guess i shouldn't expect to see much.

[fizzy123]

Wow can see this small galaxy at the bottom left hand corner of the picture, any idea what galaxy it is?

[shirox]

Fizzy, thats M32

[PETER LOO]

Thanks my friends, last night the sky was semi-open with high cloud & fatty moon, taken another shot of the M31 but this time with 200mm F2.8 lens @ F3.2 opening: Canon 550D (un-mod) ISO 400 with the clip on filter pass down by Shirox, shot 20 X 2.0 mins un-guided GP-2 Mount. Looks like not able to get a nice & complete M31 pics from HDB area .. so difficult here ....

[cataclysm]

Ah nice setup ! And so convenient and cozy to image from the comfort of home.

[shirox]

yeah man, having a balcony at home is a bless

[lotsafruit]

Crop M31 27 Oct 12.jpg

Thanks my friends, last night the sky was semi-open with high cloud & fatty moon, taken another shot of the M31 but this time with 200mm F2.8 lens @ F3.2 opening: Canon 550D (un-mod) ISO 400 with the clip on filter pass down by Shirox, shot 20 X 2.0 mins un-guided GP-2 Mount. Looks like not able to get a nice & complete M31 pics from HDB area .. so difficult here ....

Hi Peter

See that you took some shots with just 200mm regular dslr, but i couldn't get same results. For 2min shots, need auto guiding with eq mount methinks, is that right? Because i encounter trailing if more than like 8s.