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Old 30-12-2011, 01:54 PM
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Here's a shot of the Large Magellanic Cloud that I took while setting up for the comet on Christmas morning. The mount wasn't polar aligned at all yet, so I was limited to very short subs before star trailing occurred.

Details: 45x 10 sec, f/2, ISO 6400 with a stock Canon 5DmkII and Canon 135 mm f/2L mounted on an Astrotrac.

A lot of the internal/central structure is already visible despite such little data, but it wasn't quite deep enough to bring out the spiral arms properly.
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