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Old 04-03-2006, 03:20 PM
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Southern Pinwheel New Version !

Captured this morning before twilight. Conditions were superb. No breeze and a very dark, transparent sky. Very few stars could be observed to twinkle.

This is a new version of M83 Southern Pinwheel - using new data. Much better than the first one.

It is a stack of 30 x 30sec ASA1600 exposures. In-camera noise reduction was on and the mirror locked up.

The difference with this one is that it helps if you keep the dew off the SN-8's corrector plate, so that light can get into the actual telescope .
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