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Old 29-08-2012, 10:06 PM
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IC4606 Rho Ophiuchi

Here is my offering of Rho Ophiuchi.

This was the first run with the camera lens adapter for my QSI583. I used a 20yo Nikon 85mm F1.8 lens at F4 - hence the 18-point stars. I also used a new belt drive focuser. I'll post some photos of the rig in due course.

I was quite impressed at Maxim being able to plate solve these widefield images and collected this data using an automated run in CCDC. The are 50mins of data for each LRGB filters - all 5 minute subs. L was taken a bin 1x1, while RGB were bin 2x2. Taken out at Leyburn during August's new moon - thanks to Ray & Steve for suggestions on composition!

Need to do some more research on processing widefields in PI.

Comments & criticisms welcome as usual.

Link to full size JPEG - 5Mb.

Note - the compression on the attached image is pretty heavy to fit in the 200kb limit...

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