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Old 20-01-2014, 07:32 PM
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M46 and NGC 2438 through Strongmanmike's finderscope ;-)

Maybe not even that. But gotta make do with what I've got. I've got some pretty big canons, I just can't mount em on anything. And the smaller pea shooting canons need new focusers, coma correctors and even new tubes. I'll get a round tooit one century. Or not.

In the mean time... this target has been sitting on the hard drive since December 3/4 2013. I just got around to bothering with it. Rather than let it go to waste, thought I'd post it somewhere, so here it is. Unlucky you for seeing it.

Camera was a Pentax K-x, no filters, 45 x 2 minute subs for a total of 90 minutes, Skywatcher 120mm F5 achro refractor. Manual guiding, shot out of the kitchen window. No really, it was.

Blue layer was desaturated to reduce the CA, green layer was murdered with HLVG and the red layer from sodium street lights was killed with Photoshop. That leaves um.... nothing?

More worserer pic at Astrobin. http://astrob.in/73602/0/
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