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Originally Posted by bmitchell82
would $50 bucks sort them out?  over here in the west we have had the most horrid year for astro. nearly 7 months of nothing but cloud, rain and gale force winds! So next year a few of us are driving into the wilderness..... 15hrs north near Newman central WA |
Sounds good. You guys don't have to drive far to get some real dark skies around Perth either.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Lovely big FOV, Marc. I did some imaging around the Tarantula a month ago with my FSQ-106ED and your pic is on a much grander scale.
Cheers,
Rick.
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Thanks Rick. Glad you like it.
These fields are 5.2 x 3.9 degrees at an image scale of 5.57 arc seconds per pixel.
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Originally Posted by DavidTrap
Marc - what f-stop are you using for that lens? Are you stopping it down with the internal diaphragm, or using an external mask?
Ta
DT
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Fully opened. No stop. The QHY9 sensor is small enough to get away with corners aberrations.