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Old 13-05-2021, 04:44 PM
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Sombrero and Trifid

I recently acquired a 10"F4 newt which has been through the hands of a couple of IIS members, as a replacement for my trusty old C925 for imaging. After a spot of maintenance work which meant removing the spider assembly, I had to teach myself to collimate a fast newt effectively (And buy the right tools to do it)

Last night was my first opportunity to image with it since I got the collimation sorted, so I headed over to the Sombrero for a test, gathering around 65 X 300 second subs with the ASI2600MC, and using the best 55 after I deleted any subs with eccentric stars, and made another arbitrary round of deletions of those where seeing impacted star HFR. Integrated in APP and fairly light post in Photoshop.

I set a dragscript up in Voyager so that when the Sombrero fell below 45 degrees elevation, it headed over and started on the Trifid for the year to fill in the time. That netted 18 good out of 25 subs as the seeing had deteriorated a bit, all had round stars but the HFR of some was not great.

Astrobin links to high res
Sombrero https://www.astrobin.com/full/f1dnbc/B/
Trifid https://www.astrobin.com/full/bcqc3y/0/
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