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Old 06-04-2011, 03:31 PM
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Neptune 6th April

Before morning shift this morning (starting too early to see Mars ) I thought I'd have a go at Neptune. Thinking I could find it through the finderscope I didn't bother attaching an eyepiece and put the camera on live view. A bit of star hopping identified a very small disc dancing around. Next time I am going to try and take my time and look through the eyepiece! Seeing was very poor.

With 4x teleconverters on the Canon EOS 550D, at 1/60s, 60fps, ISO6400, 7000 frames and 12" Goto dobsonian I managed this image. The image is not sharpened at all.

I was hoping for a bit more colour but that is something I will strive for in later observations.

Cheers,

Tom
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