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Old 12-08-2006, 10:33 PM
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M8 and M83

Hi there,
spurred on by ealier results with autoguiding i tried my luck at some more tonight after some more adjustments.
some tweaks in guidedog are showing better tracking performance. nfortunately i'm not happy with the focus (and the dust bunnies...)
anyways
M83 is a composite of 2 5minutes 20 sec shots (i was doing a 7.5 min shot when it went into hiding behind a nice big tree...
M8 however, is my record so far at 453 seconds! i would have tried for 14 minutes but the Moon had already breached the horizon...

hope you like
frank
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