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Old 03-11-2007, 02:23 PM
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ngc253 & ngc2070

I just bought an SBIGST2000XCM from Lars Hansen in the classifieds forum and these are my first efforts from last night.
I really don't know what I'm doing with this camera yet but I think it holds a lot of promise. These shots were unguided ( as I wasn't sure of the cabling setup 'till I heard from Lars this morning ) so I used track and accumulate mode in CCDOPS. Both images were comprised of very short 15 second exposures.



equip : 254mm F4.7 SW Newt, EQ6 Pro, ST2000XCM, Baader MPCC, UV/IR

p.s. I find staring at a monitor for focusing etc to be a little strange after having spent the last 2 years avoiding light at any cost. Makes it a bit difficult when I have to do sight aligning of objects in finder scope to get close to centre to fine tune composition on the monitor due to the relatively narrow field of view of the st2000xcm compared to my 350D. Never mind onward and upward.
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