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Old 03-07-2010, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DavidU View Post
28/sqr arc sec my goodness, email this to the camera manufacturer. They will love this.
Yes it is rather eye openning isn't it 3 hours with this CCD on a 6" telescope can go as deep on faint extended featues as a 1.2m (F2.5!!!) telescope could, using what was then cutting edge photgraphic processing too, just a generation ago.

Mike

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