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Old 01-03-2010, 07:16 PM
Doomsayer
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vela SNR

A great field for sure Greg. I've been wondering how the 16803 was going. The Vela SNR often seems to have poor chart coverage. The Uranometria V2 atlas is pretty good but it generally just maps the GUM nebs. Hard to beat the UK schmidt plates if you are old school.
Maybe a few deep frames with a good camera lens (Hasselblad?) might solve the problem for tracking its extent.

I'm looking forward to going deep in this area as well with a 'wide' lens. I have a Nikon & Hasselblad adapter for the PL11002M ready to go (I have a collection of old 'Blad gear, still used occasionally). This combo would vignette the 16803 a fair bit because of the Nikon small throat but it might be possible to get a custom adapter.

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