Both images above were from the same slide, just processed a little differently in Photoshop. The images were taken using my Konica camera and a Soligor zoom lens with an IDAS light pollution filter. The camera was then piggybacked on my Ultima C8. The lens was set at 260mm and f/4.5. The exposure was for 20 minutes. The film was Kodak Elite Chrome 200.

The image on the left was adusted to try to bring out as much of the nebulocity as possible. The image on the right was adusted to try to make the background dark. I was unable to get both features on the same image in photoshop.

You can see where my tracking wasn't prefect since the stars aren't nice perfect circles. I was able to capture stars dimmer than 12th magnitude in the image. I was also very pleased that I was able to capture some nebulocity.

Piggyback images of M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) with zoom lens

This one was actually my first piggyback shot with the zoom lens. After developing the film, I see that I did not zoom in enough to the image. Unfortunatly I can only see the very bightest of objects in the viewfinder of the camera, so before I can really zoom in on a object, I would need to make sure that the camera and telescope are aligned. You can also see some of my tracking errors in this image as well.

In addition to M31, you can also see M32, even though it looks like a star. You can also just barely make out M101 just a little above and to the right of the core of M31.