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Old 31-01-2019, 08:55 AM
glend (Glen)
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Amateurs discover Kuiper Belt Object

This is a nice story, Japanese amateur astronomers discover a Kuiper Belt Object using a couple of Celestron scopes:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/01/a...nd-neptune/amp

They published in Nature and here is the link (takes some time to load the pdf) I hope it works):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...register.co.uk

Amazing use of pretty standard equipment, an ASI1600 camera on a Celestron Rowe-ackerman f2.2. Sounds like Houghy's setup. But these guys found a reducer to get down to f1.98.

So keep looking folks (or imaging in this case).

Last edited by glend; 31-01-2019 at 09:10 AM.
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