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Started by RolandC, 11/30/2011 11:06PM
Posted 11/30/2011 11:06PM Opening Post
I was recently at an imaging conference in Chile. Got to see two of the large observatories in the Andes mountains. Also was able to do some imaging thanks to Daniel Verschatse and his observatory at his mountain retreat near Cerro Tololo. He let me use his 155EDF refractor and STL11K astrocamera.

This is a quick LRGB, 3 x 5 minute exposure. This Jpeg cannot show the real detail since it's highly compressed to fit the 500k limit. It's also heavily cropped.

Rolando

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Posted 11/30/2011 11:10PM #1
Killer. So what did you think? Better than Omega or not?

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Posted 12/01/2011 03:55AM #2
Great balls of fire! Nice one, Rolando.

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Posted 12/01/2011 05:20AM #3
Full res must be amazing smile. Great shot Roland!

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Posted 12/01/2011 05:40AM #4
That is some cluster! 8O

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Posted 12/01/2011 12:55PM #5
Amazing photo Roland, I keep going back to it.

Harry
Posted 12/05/2011 07:23PM #6