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Started by astroguy, 02/26/2004 03:57PM
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Mark Keitel
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Taken at WSP 2004 in winds of 18 - 20 knots with higher gusts
Glad that I had a Tak FSQ 106 mounted on top of my larger scope, It tracked fine with an AP 1200 mount and over 125lbs worth of equipment on it

there are a few Galaxies in this image with the right South ( not due South though ) not sure on what the ones on the right might be since I can not find them in any of the charts that I have looked at to date.

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SBIG 10xe
Optec IFW and filters
R= 10 x 480 sec
G =10 x 480 sec
B = 10 x 480 sec

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That's a beautiful image Mark. Really nice pin-point stars.

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Very nice image! As the commander of the spaceship in "2001: a space odissey" said about the mysterious monolyth "It's full of stars!"

Ciao Mark and congratulation for yet another striking image.


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Mark -

Beautiful! I have not heard any reports from WSP yet - I hope the winds died down for you at some point.

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Great image Mark.
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Beautiful Image Mark!
Great color & detail!

On the two days that I could spend down at the WSP, Monday night was cloudy, but opened up for about 4 hours (11:30pm to 3:30am) and I enjoyed very much the views... Omega Centauri & Eta Carinae were a very special treat.
Tuesday was rainy, cloudy & VERY VERY windy, specially that night, I was expecting my tent to go flying!

On a funny note, I got to meet the person from which I purchased my scope, you know him Mark, I bought Vincent's LX-200GPS... and we laughed about how small this world really is...


Anyways, thanks for sharing Mark, I'm happy some of you got to stay there for the whole week and enjoyed the great views...


I'll see you down there next year, for sure!



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