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Originally Posted by Octane
That is truly astounding, Peter. Considering both the short exposure duration and your light-polluted skies. Something to aspire to!
You're giving me inspiration to move my gear from my dark sky setup (where I just can't get out to nowadays, due to work, life, etc.,) and moving it to my light-polluted Queanbeyan backyard. I might actually get something done from the backyard! The STL/FSQ is sitting there doing nothing. I haven't done any deep sky imaging since my M31 several years ago. *sigh*
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Thanks H. Queanbeyan light polluted?? Nah!
The thing to remember with urban imaging is provided you can keep the noise down (read: cooled CCD), deep objects are very attainable...they just need more exposure than a dark sky site.
Also the RHA is going to gather photons over 4x faster that a 100mm refractor...hence to get a similar S/n you'd need 4:1:1:1 hours with the Taka... certainly doable over a couple of nights
