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M16 - My 2nd photo ever.
My 2nd photo attempt with my scope. I saw a couple of other pictures of this recently so I got keen and went out into the 4 degree (and dropping) night and gave it a go. After about 4 hours setting up and figuring out how to use some new softwares I took this 5min exposure. Then setup to snap several more to stack them and went inside. Came back 30min later to find battery in camera had gone flat. d'oh! One more thing learnt...
A question - Why are my bright stars so large in diameter? Is this normal for a CMOS camera?
Some info on equipment used -
LX200 10" Classic with Canon 450D.
Guided with Celestron Omni XLT 127 (SCT) hung on the back of LX200 with losmandy rails and quick release type mount with Orion SS Autoguider and PHD.
Image adjusted with MaxIM DL. Tripod aligned with Alignmaster (sweet).
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