This is one of my earliest astrophotos. It is an unguided image taken with my very first telescope, a Celestron C8 SCT on a CG5 mount. A Nikon D90 DSLR camara was used capture the image and since there was no guiding, the exposure times were very short.
The LRGB version shown below was done with a better camera, better telescope and a guider. But even more importantly, the LRGB version used a lot more frames and longer exposure time per frame. The difference between the two photos is significant and is a good demonstration of how important gear and integration time is. This is especially true here since the LRGB version was taken from my backyard in the city while the above image was taken from a much darker location but is still nowhere near as good.
