Results of My Photo Messier Marathon and Beginning of My Messier 40

[M111]

I posted that I was going to try to photograph all the open clusters in the Messier catalog last night. Well, the weather did not cooperate again, but I did make significant progress. It was cloudy until around 9:00 and by 12:30 there was so much fog and condensation that everything, including me, was sopping wet. I did manage to photograph 16 of the clusters in that three and a half hours. Each of these pictures are single one minute exposures at 1600 ISO, and stacked with a single dark frame. Some are better than others. Please let me know what you think.

Also, I will let this thread serve as my Messier 40 Photo thread. I think right now I have around 30 of them taken. But I will wait to add the ones that were not taken last night, because I honestly want to hear what others think about how I did with my "photo marathon."

The First Five Are: M34, M35, M36, M37, and M38
Date Taken: March 24, 2012
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF Reflector
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: One, One Minute Exposure At 1600 ISO And One Dark Frame
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed With Photoshop CS5.1 Extended

[M111]

The Next Five Are: M41, M44, M45, M46, and M47
Date Taken: March 24, 2012
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF Reflector
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: One, One Minute Exposure At 1600 ISO And One Dark Frame
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed With Photoshop CS5.1 Extended

[M111]

The Next Five Are: M48, M50, M67, M93, and M103
Date Taken: March 24, 2012
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF Reflector
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: One, One Minute Exposure At 1600 ISO And One Dark Frame
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed With Photoshop CS5.1 Extended

[M111]

The Final Open Cluster is: M40 (Missing Messier)
Date Taken: March 24, 2012
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF Reflector
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: One, One Minute Exposure At 1600 ISO And One Dark Frame
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed With Photoshop CS5.1 Extended

The Next Image is: M95 and 96 with the Supernova Noted
Date Taken: March 24, 2012
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF Reflector
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: One, One Minute Exposure and One Eight Minute Exposure At 1600 ISO And Fifteen Dark Frames
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed With Photoshop CS5.1 Extended

The Final Image is: M97 and M108
Date Taken: March 24, 2012
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF Reflector
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: Fifteen, One Minute Exposure At 1600 ISO And Fifteen Dark Frames
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed With Photoshop CS5.1 Extended

[M111]

Since nobody commented on my shots from the weekend, I'll go ahead and post the others I've already taken, so I can see exactly how many more I need.

Object: M1
Date Taken: February ‎22, ‎2012
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Canon Digital Rebel (Hutech Modified)
Exposure: 44 1min. Lights, 44 Darks At 800 ISO
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed With Gimp.

Object: M13
Date Taken: May ‎05, ‎2011
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: One 1 min. Exposure At 800 ISO
Processing: Noise Removed In NEAT Image, Processed In GIMP.

Object: M27
Date Taken: August ‎28, ‎2011
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: 11 1 min. Lights, 10 Darks At 800 ISO
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed with Fitswork

Object: M42 And M43
Date Taken: October 29, ‎2011
Telescope Used: Vixen R130-SF
Mount Used: Skywatcher EQ5P
Guiding: Unguided
Camera Used: Olympus E-410 (Unmodified)
Exposure: 5 (1 min.), 15 (30 sec.) Lights, 20 Darks, 20 Bias
Processing: Stacked With Deep Sky Stacker And Processed with Fitswork And Gimp

[Zombie]

very nice. i really like your m45 pic for some reason. m13 and m27 is also super nice. keep it up

[dmbryan]

Looking good man!!

[star2root]

Nice images!

[Astronewb]

Very nice collection of Messiers, grats. You're off to a great start, the images are really nice. Keep them coming.

Btw...what part of the US are you in? Nice skies...jealous.

Clear skies

Paul

[M111]

I'm in Alabama and the skies at my house are pretty good, but all my pics from this weekend were taken at the Birmingham Astronomical Society's dark sky site on top of a mountain.

John