Exposure Details |
Lens |
Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 |
Focal Length |
1050mm |
Focal Ratio |
F7 |
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Mount |
Astro Physics 1200GTO CP3 |
Guiding |
Orion SSAG using AT65EDQ 420mm Lens |
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Camera |
Canon 60Da |
Exposure |
124 lights at 360 seconds each - 12.4 hours total exposure |
Calibration |
56 darks, no flats, 100 bias |
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Date |
September 23rd-26th of the year 2014 |
Temperature |
24 degrees C |
SQM Reading |
Bortle 1 |
Seeing |
Great |
Location |
Okie-Tex Star Party- Kenton, OK |
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Software Used |
Backyard EOS, PixInsight, PHD Guiding |
Notes |
I'd been wanting to image this galaxy for a long while now but never had the focal length available to do so and still get a decent result. Even 1050mm is bit low. I'd really like to image this and NGC4565 at about 1600mm-1800mm and see what that yields. I was actually performing a side by side comapriosn while imaging this target against an Astro Physics 160 EDF Starfire. The results were very surprising and I was happy make it happen. The AP image, as well as photos of the setup will be listed below. |