Andrew’s Astronomy Blog

We got back from the evening at Kielder at about 1 in the morning and as it was clear, albeit, not very dark I setup to take some pictures of M10 in Ophiuchus. By 2:30 it was already getting light and the dawn chorus was getting going but I got 15 3 minute exposures at ISO 800 for this image. Telescope is the ZenithStar 70mm F/6.

For the second part of the Saturday evening I turned my attention to M13 in Hercules. As the tracking appeared to be working OK I switched back to 3 minute exposures at ISO 400 and ended up stacking 16 images. Also in the image is NGC 6207, a faint galaxy just visible at the left hand side of the frame.