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Old 13-09-2011, 12:56 AM
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Random targets: Trifid, Orion, Jupiter & Uranus

The joys of being a newbie to astronomy and astrophotography is that there's so much low hanging fruit out there for me to enjoy... even during a full moon under light polluted skies with a frosty 6 deg C breeze

Here are a few random photos from last night, with my WO FLT-132 and Canon 5DmkII using either the WO P-FLAT68 flattener (nebulae and moon) or TeleVue 5x PowerMate (planets). I'm very tempted to get one of those el cheapo 12" imaging newts to throw onto my EQ6 for planetary imaging and visual observing.

I had just as much fun looking at 'stuff' as I did taking photos of it. This hobby rocks
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