M64 Between the clouds

[budguinn]

Hi guys,

I've been getting desperate for some nice weather. Last night had good seeing when the clouds didn't interfere.
I took 16 10min shots of this galaxy but was only able to use 6 of them....so it did suffer a tad by the relatively short overall exposure.

small size:


other sizes:
larger sizes here

Telescope: TAK FRC300 @F5.9
Camera: QSI532WSG
6@10min Acquired in MaximDl
Processed in ImagesPlus, CCDStack and PSCS2

here is a full size crop of just the galaxy:


and larger sizes of this cropped image:
larger sizes

Hoping for some nice weather tonight,

comments are always appreciated,

[Bob_riggs]

Breathtaking! Thanks, Bud!

Bob

[budguinn]

thanks for taking a look