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Comet Garrard Aug 20

Started by dconra12, 08/21/2011 05:22PM
Posted 08/21/2011 05:22PM Opening Post
Tried c2009/P1 again.
Tracking on the comet worked fairly well considering the density of the star field.
Managed to get eight 5 minute exposures in a row so the star tracks weren't aall broken up,
Finally had to stop taking exposures when I couldn't buck a star in the guide field.
8X5min exposures with a Hutech Canon 40D (clear filter) and Skywatcher 120ED with Borg 7887 reducer/flattener.

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Posted 08/21/2011 05:57PM #1
Posted 08/21/2011 11:21PM #2
This is 6 five minute exposures of the star field Garrard was traveling thru.
It moved about 80 arc seconds during that half hour.



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