M51

[outer grove]

First clear night of galaxy season

[timid grail]

wow nice image
do you know whether its possible to shoot M51 untracked

[rustic gust]

with what scope?

[timid grail]

12”😅

dob

[rustic gust]

hmm... maybe? but you'd have to take very short exposures (so much worse SNR) and manually track.

if the dob movement is smooth and percise, I think it's possible

though quite a challenge