Sorry for the very late post…

The night of Sunday May 7th (at home) was very productive with the 6in SCT. I started out by doing a bit of galaxy hunting… I just can’t resist faint fuzzies. Anyway I spent a little while looking for m109. It was a bit difficult and I thought I was looking in the wrong spot till I hooked up the camera to image it and lo and behold it was there, and I was looking in the right spot after all. I guess the conditions have to be exceptional for this galaxy to show itself easily. I roamed around in Leo and Virgo a bit before aiming my scope at M13. I was determined to get a better image of it. The last one was only a 30 sec exposure and had pretty poor tracking. This time since getting a polar scope installed (thanks Tim) I had much better tracking. Also, I actually was able to achieve a pretty good focus with the aid of a bright star which was far from M13 and surprisingly the focus held together well when aiming back to the target.

Here are the specs:

M13 By KerryLH
Canon 300D @ prime focus on the C6 SCT (CG-5 GOTO mount) with f6.3 focal reducer.
2x1min and 1x22sec exposure, ISO1600, 1 dark frame, unguided, stacked in photoshop.