Well winter here in Minnesota just won't end but for the first time in months, we had a clear night all night. I was lucky I remembered how everything worked! Using Uranometria 2000, I saw Abell 2065 listed and not much of a description. The Sky 6 showed a quite a a number of very faint galaxies. A quick check of the internet revealed a few pics of the galaxy cluster. It didn't appeared to imaged frequently so that was going to be my target to see what I could capture with my modest setup. So here is the result. And more importantly, everything worked without any issue!
I was also intrigued by the fact that this cluster is 1.5 BILLION light years distant. Wow.
Taken with a C11 with an Optec Agos adaptor (f6.8, 1900mm), ST-8XME, MI-250, CCDAP5.
10x15 min subs, CCDStack 2. (Outside temp in the upper 20's.)
Chris N
Cedar, MN
I was also intrigued by the fact that this cluster is 1.5 BILLION light years distant. Wow.
Taken with a C11 with an Optec Agos adaptor (f6.8, 1900mm), ST-8XME, MI-250, CCDAP5.
10x15 min subs, CCDStack 2. (Outside temp in the upper 20's.)
Chris N
Cedar, MN
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