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Old 03-10-2012, 11:27 PM
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A late M8... and M20 and NGC 6559 and...

I collected a lot of data on this target from inner suburban Brisbane a couple of months ago but it needed a couple of hours of good data from Leyburn to bring it to life. There's about 2.5 hours from Leyburn and 5.5 hours from home. If I'd had another hour or two of the good stuff I could probably have tossed all the Brisbane data away without losing anything...

Mount: Astro-Physics AP900
Scope: Tak FSQ-106ED
Camera: Sbig STL11K, Astrodon Gen 2 filters
Guiding: Tak FS-60C and Lodestar
Focuser: Atlas
Exposures: 54x300s Lum, 14x300s each R, G & B + some 30s subs
Processing: PixInsight

The copy uploaded to IIS suffered a lot from the compression required to get it down to 200Kb, so it's worth checking out the larger version here: http://rickstevenson.smugmug.com/Ast...Bv6amed-X3.jpg

Creative criticism welcomed as always. Thanks...

Cheers,
Rick.
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