[AZ-Observing] Re: Clouds have moved in at Antennas
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- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:22:37 -0700
Steve;
Can you post your pictures someplace. I would like to see them.
Jim
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Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 12:50 PM
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Clouds have moved in at Antennas
Howdy all;
Well, I woke up to a cloudy sky. Not thick stuff but still covering
the entire sky with lots of high wispy clouds. It is 1 PM and I don't
see any clearing from the west. We shall see.
Last night stayed clear until about 11 PM and I got some excellent
images. I attached the camera directly to the ED 80 and tracked a
variety of objects. I don't have an autoguider, so I just trusted the
CGEM mount and it all worked out fine. The polar alignment routine in
the CGEM firmware is doing a great job of getting the mount right on the
pole.
These were 2 minute exposures, mostly of open clusters. I might try
three minutes once the clouds go away. Al Stiewing was nice enough to
loan me a 0.8 reducer/field flattener and it seems to work very nicely.
I am going to try multiple shots of the same object and get some images
I can stack for better contrast. So I already have some results and
hoping for more.
Clear skies to us all;
Steve Coe
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