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Old 09-10-2013, 04:51 PM
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One night in Leyburn (time lapse)

I was inspired by Roger's time lapse a short while ago of his scope zooming around the sky doing supernova searches. I captured this time lapse of my scope doing pointing calibrations and polar alignment before settling in for the last of three consecutive nights imaging of NGC 247 Needle's Eye Galaxy and Burbidge's Chain in Cetus over the long weekend.

The title photo in the video shows RobF's kit (the two mounts in the foreground), my gear (mount in the centre/far background), and RickS' beast (mount in the middle/right). DavidTrap makes a cameo appearance as red ghosts around 0:19.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB80KnX8nfA

A few stills from the time lapse are attached here. The trail in image #4 is the satellite OAO 2. Image #5 shows the ghost of Leyburn (aka DavidTrap).
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