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Old 21-11-2007, 11:57 AM
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Horsey Autoguided from the night before!

Hi Folks..
Well this is my third attempt at autoguiding with my new goodies and what better subject than the good ol horsehead and friends! Set up as the moon was setting below the mountains got my focus and the autoguiding going and waited for the sky to grow dark..
Used PHD for guiding and with some help and comments from other IIS members.. I tried some longer exposures and more of them.
Half way through some dirty dark clouds paid a visit and PHD was flashing red and not happy about it so I took some darks till the cloud had moved on..Lost 3 exposures out of the session but I am a happy chappy. Out of all the frames only one showed oval stars but was still very usable..
Ok datails are 14 x 7min at iso 800 with 4 DF subtracted, with my 6" newt and canon 300D..I ran out of dark sky with dawn approaching before I could do any more..
Seeing was good as well as transparancy but not cool enough to keep the noise low.
I think this is my best horsehead to date...
All comments most welcome!
cheers and CS Gary
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