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Sky 90 II - Going deep!

Started by ccwoodruff, 06/10/2004 10:28PM
Posted 06/10/2004 10:28PM | Edited 06/10/2004 10:29PM Opening Post
Hello,
I have always wanted to see how deep my little Sky 90 could go. I also have also wanted to take a nice image of Markarian's Chain. So I did both :-) Attached is about 4 hours worth of combined images over the last few nights. I have marked the image with the deepest Galaxy that I could identify by name. It is IC 3355 at mag 15.2. I know that there are Galaxies in this image deeper than 16.0 but was unable to come up the names so I didn't mark them. There must be more than 100 Galaxies in this image though! Anyways, something different...
Tak Sky 90 II f4.5
ST8xe
Approx 4 hours combined images (each 5min)

Thanks for looking,
Chris Woodruff

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ccwoodruff's attachment for post 16625
Posted 06/11/2004 02:57AM #1

That's an awesome image Chris! 8O

Thanks for sharing.
Posted 06/11/2004 11:57AM #2
Nice shot, Chris! Awesome guiding and great focus, too.

I did something similar with my FS-60C last year, but I didn't check to see how deep I had gone.

Jeff

Jeff 8O
Posted 06/12/2004 01:08PM #3
Thanks everyone for the very kind posts!!
Chris
Posted 06/12/2004 05:31PM #4
As a fellow Sky 90 user, this is way ultra cool.

I just did a close comparative inspection of your image and found PGC-40844 at 16.60 mag and PGC-40592 at an astounding 18.89 mag.

Deep, indeed. You and the little guy are to be commended big time. Or should I say, Deep Time :-)

-Paul S. Walsh
Posted 06/12/2004 08:16PM #5
Very nice deep image chris.