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Started by cosmoscrazy, 05/23/2010 08:28PM
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Peter Morrison
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My first deepish shot with the 8" ACF. I recently aquired another counterweight, so can piggyback my ZS66 for guiding.

Taken 5/14/2010 from Tierra Del Sol.

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Equipment:
Optics - Meade 8" ACF @ f/10
Mount - Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Camera - Unmodified Canon 350D

Exposure Information:
36x180s @ ISO800

Processing in ImagesPlus 3.8, resize & crop in MS Digital Image suite.

Thanks for looking
Peter

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Nicely resolved. Got a galaxy too. (Did you do darks or flats? Looks like some horizontal artifacts.)
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Fort Lewis Observatory: (37.238, -108.052) ~2360m (7744 ft.) elevation.
Darkness - typically 6.5+
Scope - Meade 16" LX200; f6.3 focal reducer
Focus - JMI Smart focus
Camera - SBIG ST-10XE; (~.5"/pixel)
Guiding - AO-8 and/or Meade 5"/DSI/PHD
http://www.fortlewis.edu/observatory
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