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Widefield Copernican rays!

Started by Mike Wirths, 04/09/2006 02:22PM
Posted 04/09/2006 02:22PM Opening Post
Hi all,

Well the seeing was so terrible last night that none of the videos were usable even with the lowley 2.5 barlow! So I did an experiment to see if the Infinity would come to focus without a barlow and it does! So here is the beautiful ray structure around Copernicus, along with a few domes near the terminator. Not sure why but some odd horizontal lines in the bottom 3rd of the image...

still I 'm pretty happy with it, otherwise it would have been a washout evning!

85 frames stacked out of 550, R True Tech filter, Infinity 2-2 , Reg 3 8 align points

--cheers

Mike W

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Posted 04/09/2006 05:29PM #1
Hi Mike -

Lovely! It's great to get to look through your 18" scope - even at prime focus. smile
The seeing was very bouncy here too last night - but I hate to pass up a clear saturday night so I filled up a hard drive with lunar and jupiter images anyway.

cheers-
Alan

Alan Friedman

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Posted 04/09/2006 11:17PM #2
I would be happy with that one too Mike. I love the wide views from the Infinity's.

Regards,
Ed Roach