M51 - Whirlpool galaxy

Wow! Look at the details in this galaxy. Now I really need to get serious and have many frames but with longer exposure. The results would be quite good.


M51

2010/07/26 @ 11:38 EDT
60 frames x 15 seconds @ 1600 ISO (total = 15 minutes)
Celestron 8 @ f/6.3
No guiding.

Processed with DeepSky Stacker, the Gimp and NeatImage.

Processing the raw files, I obtained this (the one above is processed from high quality jpeg)