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Old 16-09-2007, 01:32 AM
tornado33
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Abell 66 in Saggitarius, a real faint one.

I hadnt had a plan as what to image after the footy tonight so decided to take a "tour" with the argo navis by pointing the scope roughly to Saggitarus and selecting "tour" and planetary nebulae brighter then mag 16. First one that came up was Abell 66 so decided to give it a go.

5x10 mins ISO 800, UHCS filter, 10 inch f5.6 newtonian hand guided, modded 350D camera, high cloud ending proceedings, I would have gone for 1.5 hours if I could.
Not many pics on the Web of this particular Abell object. This might be one of the very few colour pics of it.

The Horsehead nebula is blindingly bright compared to this
Scott
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