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Old 03-03-2009, 02:17 PM
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A Nice Pair - M65 & M66

We had a realtively cool night last night and by 10.30pm the winds had eased so I ventured into my observatory to do some imaging.

Ofcourse as soon as I setup the wind started to pick up again but I got a few shots in anyway before the buffeting got too severe. I took 5 extra 360 sec images of ngc5128 that I will be adding to previous data on that galaxy but I also got an hour on M65 and M66. Here is the image of that galactic pair. Next time out I'll see if I can fit ngc3628 in frame also ... but I think it will be a tight squeeze ... might just image it by itself and stitch the two images.



WO FLT110 F7 Triplet Apo
SBIG ST2000XCM with Baader MPCC and UV/IR filters
Self guided in CCDOPS
10x360 sec at -14C

Just added individual crops of the two galaxies.
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