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Old 24-04-2010, 09:21 AM
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kinetic (Steve)
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A field comparison animation

What else is there to do when it's raining.
Here is a comparison of part of my 21Apr frame
to the Aladin Sky server plate for the same region.
The only info I can find about the scope used to
capture the SERC plate is that it was possibly a 1m
Schmidt telescope at the ESO in Chile?

Another object that my 5 sec set has captured is
the darker dust lane seen in the SERC frame bottom right.

It was certainly a good night of seeing. I hope some other
DS stuff comes in from the Adelaide people.
At 23:55 Pluto was only 25 degrees altitude according to
Cartes Du Ciel. It was only just clear of my neighbours fence
from the dome.

Steve
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