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I took these pictures at the club's most recent get together at Givhans Ferry State Park on May 30th, 2009. It has been almost six months since I have set up my gear, and suffered some technical difficulties as a result. Specifically, I had reformatted the hard drive on my laptop and reinstalled everything...so I thought! I forgot to install the ASCOM drivers for my telescope mount, and as a result could not communicate with the mount for guiding. The longest sub exposure I could take was 60 seconds, and still I had slight rotation. I also wanted to get a lot of targets, so most of the pictures are needing more data. All in all, I'm pretty happy to have stuff to practice with, and I still learned something! Better luck next time! None of the images are calibrated.
First Quarter Moon
(Ha 20x.03 sec 1x1 @ -15C)
M13 Globular Cluster
(L 10x10 sec 1x1: RGB each 10x10 sec 2x2 @ -15C)
(reprocessed 01/05/10)
M51 Spiral Galaxy
(L 10x60 sec 1x1: RGB each 10x60 sec 2x2 @ -15C)
(reprocessed 01/05/10)
M16 Emission Nebula
(Ha 10x60 sec 1x1: RGB each 6x35 sec 2x2 @ -15C)
(reprocessed 01/04/10)
M8 Lagoon Nebula and M20 Trifid Nebula
(L 10x60 sec 1x1: RGB each 10x60 sec 2x2 @ -15C)
(reprocessed 01/04/10)
NGC 5850 and friends
(L 10x30 sec 1x1 @ -15C, amazing for no calibration and only 5 minutes of data!)
(reprocessed 1/11/10. My first GIF. Used Aladin to find a bunch of galaxies!)
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