Forecast last Friday night was suppose to be cloud rolling in at 9.30pm so decided to do a quick capture of a globular cluster starting around 6.30pm. Forecast was totally wrong with a beautiful clear night until morning so ended up doing a globular cluster marathon until 3am in the morning
Captured about 1.5 hours of data on each object
It was a long night but enjoyable
8” f5 Bintel newt
EQ6-R Mount
Canon 600D with Baader coma corrector
Orion 60mm guide scope with helical focuser and ZWOASI120MM- S guide camera
ISO 800
120 sec and 150 sec dithered guided subs plus darks
PHD2 guiding at 0.70 to 0.85 arc sec error
NGC 2808 a magnitude 6 globular cluster in Carina
NGC 4590 ( M68 ) a magnitude 7.5 globular cluster in Hydra
NGC 5139 Omega Centauri a huge magnitude 5 dense globular cluster in Centaurus
NGC 6397 a magnitude 5.6 globular cluster in Arae
