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Very rough, sorry. Bright moonlight & an RA drive behaving very erratically.
Only ended up with 1 good and 3 'usable' subs out of 12.

4 x 23 sec, piggybacked Canon 400D at 200mm, ISO 1600, F/6.3. 8 July 09, 10:45
UT. Separation of comet & galaxy 56' 47". Will be closer tomorrow night.

http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww271/Rob_Kau/M104Q38July0910-45UTcrop.jpg

Cheers -

Rob






Wed Jul 8, 2009 12:07 pm

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Very rough, sorry. Bright moonlight & an RA drive behaving very erratically. Only ended up with 1 good and 3 'usable' subs out of 12. 4 x 23 sec, piggybacked...
Rob
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Jul 8, 2009
12:08 pm

Gidday ROb , Good to see some one had a go at this. I managed to get one shot Via GRAS, for your consideration ...
Alan Watson
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Jul 11, 2009
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Nice one all the same Alan! Galaxy shows up well! I tried again on the 9th, but with gear probs had to shoot at 55mm. Not enough scale, so didn't bother...
Rob
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