M81 - Seestar S50 in Bortle 1 skies (Phil Hoppes)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Bode's Galaxy · HD85458 · HD85828 · M 81 · NGC 3031

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M81 - Seestar S50 in Bortle 1 skies

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M81 - Seestar S50 in Bortle 1 skies

Had an opportunity to head to our place up north in Overgaard, Az. With a new moon approaching and cold weather I figured it was an ideal time to pack up my Seestar and take it with me. I've wanted to get an image of M81 for over a year now and the dark skies made for a great opportunity.

This shot is 180x10" subs with my Seestar. The narrow band filter was not use but the internal IR/UV cut filter was. I'm quite pleased with the level of detail I was able to get. Looking at images from others of the same thing I was clearly able to get a lot more detail. I'm sure the cold weather helped too. Outside temps when this was shot was 18F (-8C) so it was very close to the temp I usually use with my more expensive rigs (-10C).

I did find that in the cold weather the S50 was having some difficulty in level reporting. I set it up to image this at about 5pm when it was about 40F outside. When I did this I managed to get two green circles with a reading of about 0.7-0.8 on my level readings. After I finished for the night the S50 reported my level was way off and it was showing a value of 4.3 - 4.5. I did not touch it and just went to bed. When I got up at 4am to shoot M81 all was fine. Go figure.

Looking forward to shooting this with my C14 but for now this will have to do.

ZWO Seestar S50

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RA (center)	09h55m12s.94
RA (top/left)	09h53m32s.67
RA (top/right)	10h00m27s.99
RA (bottom/right)	09h56m59s.12
RA (bottom/left)	09h49m44s.90

Dec (center)	+69°00′50″.0
Dec (top/left)	+68°21′30″.9
Dec (top/right)	+68°32′15″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°40′09″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°28′46″.3

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