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Old 25-03-2012, 10:16 PM
vic4loc (Victor)
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It was a great turn out, was looking really promising at the start, but clouds started rolling over about 10pm or so, waited and it cleared after midnight, only to roll over again 1 hr after that. Managed to capture a single luminance shot of M83. The high clouds was playing havoc with the guiding as well, so stars are not perfectly round.

Also is a view from my corner of the field

Sorry I was quiet in my little corner, had some frustrating issues polar aligning with Alignmaster.

Info on the single Lum shot

Scope: LX90 8" with CCDT0.67
Mount: HEQ5
Camera: QSI 583WSG
Guiding: Orion SSAG
Exposure: 1 x 5 mins
Processing: Calibrate with darks/bias with MaximDL, minor processing in PS

Cropped about 70% and size reduce for upload to IIS.

Victor.
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