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Old 10-09-2012, 06:55 AM
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dtrewren (Dave)
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It's 9.50pm here and I have M27 at ~22 in the South just about to pass through the meridian heading West.

Thank you Silv

I have tried not to change too much, main motivation for change had been to maximise imaging in the poor UK weather and try and beat the light pollution associated with having 400k+ people living just behind me - all of whom seem to have security lights on ...... I might buy me an air rifle !

I think I have settled on refractors just because of ease of use, portability and relative immunity to temperature variation. Camera wise I went down the Mono+FW route and narrowband to try and combat the LP. Trouble is the sky here is so unpredictable that I was finding most nights ended in an incomplete set of subs therefore requiring a further night to get the rest. So I bought the QHY10 OSC to see how it performed under the orange fog from Bristol. I have to say with an IDAS LP2 filter fitted it has performed way beyond my expectations and I'm very relieved as it could have proved an expensive mistake !

Do you have some images yet ?

Clear skies,

Dave
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