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Started by J.P. McBride, 06/28/2012 01:42PM
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Posted 06/28/2012 01:42PM | Edited 06/28/2012 01:43PM Opening Post
Joe McBride
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Hi All, Here is my offering of the Lagoon Nebula taken with a Meade 16" @ f/6.3. (7 X 5min) total time with a modded Canon XTi. Stacked in DS and processed in PS7. Auto guider is DOA so it was manually guided. Image taken at the Veen observatory.

Thanks for looking!

Joe

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Posted 06/28/2012 04:11PM #1
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Hi Joe, Nice shot...Dave
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Beautiful close up view! I guess the mod'ed XTi has no trouble with red.

Real men guide with their hands.
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Thanks Dave & Dave!
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Nice one Joe.
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Manual guiding?!?!? That's great for 5 minutes. Were you looking through an eyepiece? And did you have any PEC help? With the local 16" there are some parts of the period where a minute might be OK unguided, but anything longer would be a big squiggle. And I know if I tried to tweak with the buttons, it would likely just get worse.

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Fort Lewis Observatory: (37.238, -108.052) ~2360m (7744 ft.) elevation.
Darkness - typically 6.5+
Scope - Meade 16" LX200; f6.3 focal reducer
Focus - JMI Smart focus
Camera - SBIG ST-10XE; (~.5"/pixel)
Guiding - AO-8 and/or Meade 5"/DSI/PHD
http://www.fortlewis.edu/observatory
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