M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula

13/08/06

   
       
I'm very pleased with these images. They are stacked images of 2 frames, each 2 minutes each, autoguided with Guidedog.   This was my first sucessful try at autoguiding and for only 2 frames totalling 4 mins of exposure the image detail is very good.  
       
       

   
Both of these images are unguided and only 2 frames. I was mainly learning how to drift align my mount so these are really only test shots.      
       
       

 

 
The image above is only around 2 frames stacked of 30 seconds but it looks better that the images below.
 

 
Managed to capture the colour of this nebula. The larger image has quite a lot on noise but does show a bit more detail.