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Old 09-05-2011, 08:49 PM
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Centaurus Chain of Galaxies

I just had 4 clear nights at my dark site. Fabulous seeing for most of it.

I noticed this one in the Sky when I was slewing the scope in this area.

There are some fairly unusual looking galaxies in the view. A wild looking circular one mid right side and a nice looking spiral up near the top.

I was also delighted at the performance of installing my MMOAG offaxis guider onto my TEC180. Perfect round stars every time with unlimited exposure time on the Tak NJP mount.

I'll post an image of that setup. Lots of stuff hanging off the end of this rather large scope.

LRGB 90 60 60 60 for a total of 4:30 hours over 2 nights. It would have been more but Microsoft Windows update was having trouble updating and at 3am it kept restarting the computer. It took me 2 nights to work out why imaging stopped at 3am instead of 5:30am.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/134561691/large regular

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...61691/original large

Here's an image of the flattener, offaxis guider and various adapters to the camera:

http://upload.pbase.com/image/134562827

Greg.

Last edited by gregbradley; 09-05-2011 at 09:01 PM.
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