Thursday night we had clear skies (though a near-full Moon) and I was able to take another set of M101 and supernova images.  Comparing to my previous images, you can see that more time from my driveway gave me more galaxy details, but that they don’t compare to what I can get from darker skies.

Camera geek info:

• Canon EOS 60D in manual mode, ISO 800, 1 minute exposures
• Williams Optics Zenith Star 73 III APO telescope
• Williams Optics Flat 73A
• SkyTech 2” LPRO-MAX CCD Filter
• iOptron CEM40
• Friendswood, Texas Bortle 7-8 suburban skies

Frames:

• 318 1 minute lights
• 31 0.05 second flats
• 20 0.05 second flat darks
• 49 1 minute darks

Processing geek info:

• PixInsight
• Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch