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Old 08-06-2015, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Placidus View Post

In my ignorance, I'd always thought that 11th mag proxima was "near" alpha on the sky, and I wondered why your shot was not flooded with light from alpha, but it seems it's something like two degrees away.
Here is a photo of Alpha - shining brightly in the lower LH corner, with Prox diagonally opposite in the RH corner (vertically above the blue artifact, near the top of the photo). FoV is 81 x 122 arc minutes.

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