10pm – 12:30am
A clear, but chill night. Fending off increasing tiredness after a family trip to NJ, in the afternoon, I attempted a half-hearted session with the goal of capturing better images of some of the usual spring galaxy suspects. A lack of attention to detail resulted in a so-so polar alignment and low numbers of sub-exposures stacked.
M63
The Sunflower continues to demand my attention, but only a stack of several hundred 30-second sub-exposures is likely to reveal the wonderful complexity of its spiral arms.
This image is composed of 75, 30-second sub-exposures. Far too few to bring out the desired detail.
M109
This is a stack of about 50, 30-second sub-exposures. Aside from an insufficient number of subs, the image suffers from the presence of dust on the DSI Pro's lens, which has produced annoying artifacts in the final image. The previous image of M63 similarly suffers from dust on the lens, though the effects are less obvious in that image.
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