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Old 12-07-2011, 09:34 PM
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first light CDK17 and reducer giving F4.51

This is really a test image to see how the reducer on the CDK17 works.

The guiding was done with a Vixen 95VMC and an SBIG ST402ME.
This worked really well and no sign of flexure with 15 minute subs.

The reducer gives F4.51. Collimation is a touch out still so further tweaking is still to be done on a clear night.

I am happy with such a deep image with only 2:45 hours with a 5nm Ha filter.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/136352364/large

Here is an inverted image showing the large extent of the nebula not often seen:

http://upload.pbase.com/image/136352411


Greg.

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