Observing Log for Mike Durkin 3/6/2010 8:00PM-1:00AM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 9/10, Seeing 3/5 Temperature: about 35 degrees Equipment: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC, Stellarvue 70mm ED, Hutech Modified Canon Rebel XT I wanted to image M81 and M82 tonight since that was able to fit into the field of view of the SV 70mm. First I played around with a software program DSI-WCS to test out polar alignment. My initial reaction is that it seems to work pretty well, but I"m stil trying to get the hang of it. Then trying to find M81 and M82 was a major pain. After a long time trying to get the right field of view in the scope, I finally found it and took some images. The results are below: Telescope: Stellarvue SV70 Camera: Hutech modified Canon Rebel DSLR Location: Locust Valley, NY Exposure: 30x30 second images stacked. 30 dark frames subtracted. ISO: 1600 Processed with MaxDSLR and Photoshop. No guiding was used. 3/5/2010 Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 9/10, Seeing ?/5 Temperature: about 35 degrees Equipment: Hutech Modified Canon Rebel XT Just took some pictures or star field areas for more photometry testing. Other Log Entries <-- 2009 Jan  Feb  Mar   Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec  2011 -->