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Old 24-01-2010, 09:52 AM
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Crab nebula M1

Hi all,

this is my first attempt at using a off axis guider on the 14" SCT to imrove tracking. I only got 1 x 5 minute exposure due to cloud comming in. The tracking in this image is a lot better than what I got on my last Crab image where a guide scope was used.

Took a while to find a guide star, and had to use the maximum exposure of 10 seconds on the Orion Starshoot auto guider to get a bright enough star.

This is with the 14" at f6.3 and Astro 40D at iso 800.

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u...inOAGfinal.jpg
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