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Old 13-09-2008, 04:11 PM
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Thanks Mike.

Yes the detail in that shot surprised me too considering it was merely from my backyard. The O111 was binned 2x2 and was a bit foggy looking so perhaps 1x1 is the way to go.

That area of the sky is quite light polluted for me at my home.

At my dark sky site it would be another story.

Also it was focused once at the start of the night and left. I am not sure how stable focus is with this scope. It has a temperature compensating
lens cell so not sure how well that works. I'll check the subs, they seemed to all be in focus.

Here's the rig:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/103048091

MMOAG is not working as I can't come to focus. It probably needs the negative lens. I may replace it with a FLI PDF as guiding seems quite good with my little Astrotech 66ED.

Greg.
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