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Old 26-04-2012, 06:04 PM
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Thanks for the comments!

I know these images are very far from perfect, some have excessive noise, trailing stars due to field rotation and seeing could have been better. However they do the job for the project and being able to image all of the PNs larger than 0.8' in the sky that night is great.

I imaged 18 objects, but some of them did not make te cut for being too faint or too low. I also did a quick supernova in M95 but didn't have time to process it yet.

A great bonus was a very strong zodiacal light (easily seen visually) on the eastern horison before sunrise (image attached, 114 degrees of the sky diagonally).

Cheers,
Alex
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