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Martian Bumblebee
Just for fun I tried to grab Mars in the Beehive Cluster, hopefully over 4 nights.
I was going to use the 1600MC without reducer but the 2600MC and 0.8x reducer was on there and dialled vaguely in so rather than risk the limited window I resorted to cropping.
The first two nights went fine, grabbed a few frames before it dipped away.
The third clouded over and looked like all was lost, then I was blessed by The Old Gods coz the sky went 100% clear in about 10 minutes. Grabbed my frames and boom 100% clouds again.
Tonight's was a rain out although I tried. Got PA through the small gaps but the target never cleared beyond a wispy view through the clouds for about 30 secs. Even put its little raincoat on. Bother.
I tried to stack Mars as a comet but no luck so I settled for the best consecutive 24 frames from each session.
EON85 + 0.8x
ASI2600MC 3 images, 24 frames of 30s 100g -10C
CEM40ec unguided
PI + GIMP for the series.
Peace, Love & Mung beans
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