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Tom
Thanks... I am trying to get all of the Messier objects in Coma Berenices ... mostly galaxies.

Roger

I am continuing to complete imaging of Messier objects in Coma Berenices. Last night I imaged M99. I knew that clouds would be coming in sometime during the night but I gave it a shot anyway. As it turned out, I was able to image from around 8:45 until just after 1AM. I acquired 120 images (2 minute...

During the solar eclipse I took an image of the sun every 30 seconds for the entire duration. I just finished cropping and centering in photoshop and made into a video. The file is tool large for this forum You can see the video at my website menardastrophotography.com ... under the Solar tab. Roger

Mike
I am really impressed with your solar eclipse image taken using an iPhone!

Roger

Pete Looks like some light intrusion in upper left and right .... I know it was full Moon, but Ursa Major should be far enough away. Your stars look really good so I am not sure why the galaxies are not as crisp as they could be. M81 actually looks pretty good so maybe it is the light intrusion that...

I have been wanting to image M98 for some time --- and now is the time of year to do it. Messier 98 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 44.4 million light years away. It is estimated to contain a trillion stars --dwarfing our own Milky Way. It is one the the most remote blueshifted galaxy, meanin...

Pete
Correct ...no filter.
I am surprised that I did not even get any sky0glow from the Moon.
Roger

The Moon was almost full, and very bright last night. I decided to try and image a pair of galaxies in Canes Venatici, since it is fairly far from the Moon. My last attempt at imaging resulted in 'finger-like' smudges on all images (which were processed out using flat frames). I found that the ZWO A...

Tom & Pete

Thanks for your comments.

Pete--- I agree that sometimes astrophotography can be frustrating, but then if it was easy, anyone could do it.

Roger

Finally .... a clear night! We are about 10 weeks into 2024 and so far I have only been able to image 8 times due to cloudy/rainy weather (or full Moon). I did get out last night to image Messier 88. I have been wanting to image both M88 and M98 (both in Coma Berenices) for a while. I don't know why...