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Old 08-12-2008, 11:23 PM
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Nova Carinae, at last

At last, some free time and no clouds in Melbourne.
Nova is reddish star in the centre of that frame, taken tonight (08/12/2008) at ~22:00.
After week or so, it is still quite bright.

This image is a small crop (20%) from centre of the full 1.5° frame, taken with Canon 400D, 60 sec, ISO1600, MTO-1000A on basic EQ6 (with DH firmware).

I had no difficulty to point the scope, mount works perfectly with CdC, and GoTo took from Theta Car to nova roughly 20-30 sec. Not very fast but still reasonable and spot-on.

Will try to do some photometry tomorrow.
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