Color!

Here is another pic from this weekend. I have finally managed to find my color data. This image shows the Andromeda Galaxy also known as M31. To the upper left, the faint fuzzy is a companion Galaxy, and there is a second one directly to the right of the galactic core that looks more starlike. This object is visible to the naked eye, and appears as a faint smudge on the sky looking to the east around 9:30 p.m. between Cassiopeia and the great square of Pegasus.

First photo taken with the Atlas Mount

I finally had a chance to try some long exposure photography with the new mount. This is the only photo I could get before dew became a problem.

Photo taken with a canon rebel dslr with a 70-300 mm zoom lense set to 70 mm at f/5.6 at 800 ISO. Four exposures of approximately 90 seconds with three dark frames.

The area pictured is the Milky Way around the North America nebula. The brightest star is Deneb, in the constellation Cygnus, one of the three stars of the summer triangle.