David,
Real impressive images you got here. nice shooting.
Nice setup also for this wide field imaging.

rege
Dirk

"David Cash" wrote in message
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Hi to the group,

With some clear skies here in Manchester UK I managed to get some
reasonable galaxy images. Both images were taken using a Skywatcher ED80
and a Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 CCD camera. I used my Celestron Ultima 9.25
and a Philips Toucam Pro webcam as the guide camera with the excellent PHD
Guiding software package. It was a bit too windy to image with the U9.25
so they switched roles.

Each image is a stack of 30x5 minute exposures at 1x1 binning. I ran out
of time to get RGB frames as I had to go to bed - work next day !!!!
Processing was done using AstroArt 4 and Photoshop CS. No dark frames were
used, but each of the sub-images was corrected using a master flat frame
made from 25x1 second images, an illuminated white wall and a T-shirt :-)

Regards
David Cash