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It was a calm and steady night ...

Started by RolandC, 07/18/2013 12:44AM
Posted 07/18/2013 12:44AM Opening Post
So I grabbed what scope happened to be setup in the observatory and aimed it at the Moon and Saturn. The seeing was maybe a 3 - 4 out of 5. Here is what a 155EDF refractor can do with an AP 2.5x Advanced Barlow and a cheap and cheerful QHY5 Cmos camera (at $300 bucks they are a steal!).

First shot is Saturn, approx 7000 frames at 100 frames/sec

Rolando

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Posted 07/18/2013 12:45AM #1
And the Plato region of the Moon, 278 frames, stacked in Registax6

Rolando

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Posted 07/18/2013 01:29AM #2
Nice images! I have a friend that just got a NEW AP155 EDF, the scope was still in the box as it came from you after all these years. Amazing! I got to look through it but so far he has not used it for photography. Great telescope.
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