A superb night with the Moon disappearing soon.

First time used guiding, but Rightascension only

Today's
Conditions		 : Clear sky, Temp +1°C ~ +4°C, ~65..80% humidity, very clear, good down to mediocre seeing, no wind.

M63 (NGC 5055) Galaxy

More information (German Link) Wikipedia : M 63
Date - Time : 1 April 2025 - from 19:28 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=Omegon veTec 533 C | ROI=Full Frame 3008x3008 | Filter=built-in IR Cut | 110* 120s = 220 min = 3h 40min | Gain=100 | Offset=64
Omegon Pro APO Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
I made an error with not setting the correct gain. Guiding in rightascension only.
This shows more details than the image with only one hour exposure than yesterday (next image).

M63 (NGC 5055) Galaxy

More information (German Link) Wikipedia : M 63
Date - Time : 31 March 2025 - from 19:25 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=Omegon veTec 533 C | ROI=Full Frame 3008x3008 | Filter=built-in IR Cut | 31* 120s = 220 min = 1h 02min | Gain=256 | Offset=150
Omegon Pro APO Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
Recording stopped because of an unplanned Windows update. Tried guiding RA and DEC.

Equipment

Optics              : Omegon Pro APO Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
                    : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12)
Camera              : Omegon veTec 533 C Colour CMOS Camera with IMX533 square 9MP sensor 3,75µm pixels
                    : QHY 5III715C Colour CMOS IMX715 8,2MP sensor 1,45um pixels high speed
                    : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified (from 2011)
                    : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera
                    : Panasonic LUMIX G110 MFT System (from 2021)
Filter              : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB set + filter drawer
add. optics         : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection
                    : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available
                    : 2.8/60mm Sigma, 12 .. 60mm Leica for MFT system
Mount               : VIXEN GP Highspeed Step Motors (Non Vixen Motors)
Controller          : EQStar Pro (System from Astro Gadget / Ukraine - since May 2023)
Guiding             : PHD2
Aquisition          : DELL Notebooks (Windows 10 & Windows 11), SharpCap, FireCapture and others
Image Processing    : DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp and others

latest list update  : March 2025