M51 Whirlpool

Almost 4hours of time on this in almost a single night.  Grabbed a few strays on the 2nd night but spent more time on M63 the next night.  Enjoy, I did!

FULL RES HERE: http://www.astrophotogallery.org/showfull.php?photo=5319

Nature - Animals

Alls NC Animals since 2003
Bugs
Frogs
Snakes
Spiders
Mammals

Skeet today...

Shot alright, 2 rounds of 25shots, I got 14 in the 1st and 16 in the
2nd. Above my usual ~50% hit ratio.

Mike

The missing Jupiter from Oct '09

I kept good logs of this night, but forgot to process it!

Single best of the set....

yea to me for finding it!

This takes planning *AND* strategy!

I'm on a roll with catching up on lots of stuff and have been meaning to do this for some time now.

Yes, this is:

Jacob 8weeks old as Luke Skywalker (July 2004)

Megan 9weeks old as Princess Lea (July 2006)

Brian 9weeks old as Han Solo (February 2010)

Galaxies galore!

Check out the mouse over version for labels!

http://maphilli14.webs.com/Astronomy/8-Webs/DSO/Galaxies/MAP-M84-M86-201000308-large.jpg

Catchup on some DSLR processing - more coming!

Pacman nebula - I didn't think this was enough data and was going to hit it up another night, but it slipped and well, here it is with 1 hour:



IC 342 / Caldwell 5 is a small galaxy.  I think I need better planning software, this was a bit of a tough target but I was happy to see it in the end...