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Old 04-05-2014, 06:48 PM
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Last night's photo session

A rare almost cloud free night last night. Here's the mess that resulted. All shots with a 6" F5 Newt and Baader MPCC MKIII, manual guiding on subs longer than 30 seconds.

M8 The Lagoon Nebula. http://astrob.in/94147/0/ About 1.3 hours worth of data with a full spectrum modified Nikon D70s, Astronomik CLS and Baader filters used.

M6 The Butterfly cluster was 20 x 2 minute subs at ISO 800 using an unmodified Pentax K-x, no filters. http://astrob.in/94174/0/

NGC 6441 is an old favourite of mine. It's a tiny magnitude 7.4 globular sitting right next to a 3rd magnitude star in Scorpius. 16 x 2 minute subs at ISO 400, Pentax K-x. http://astrob.in/94175/0/

M55, a mag 7 globular in the middle of nowhere... um edge of Sagittarius. 74 x 30 second subs at ISO 1600, Pentax K-x. http://astrob.in/94154/0/

The last one I took a pot shot at before going to bed. It's a tiny little galaxy NGC 7213 next to Alnair in Grus. I like little DSO's that are parked right next to a brighter star for some reason, although these are really way beyond the capability of my gear to image them well. http://astrob.in/94177/0/
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