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Old July 25th 08, 05:04 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
John N. Gretchen III
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Default ASTRO: an early look see at the Crescent in the tricolor emissionline palette

Looking good Richard!

Richard Crisp wrote:
at f/12.6 signal builds slowly. even more so using emission line filters.
even more so when there is moon in a suburban sky

but still perseverence is occasionally rewarded.

I have quite a ways to go: I have a total of 25 x 20 minutes: a hair more
than 8 hours

but we are beginning to get some idea of what it might look like in the
wavelength ordered palette

it was taken at F=5760mm using the 18" classical cassegrain at f/12.6

the camera is the FLI Proline 9000 with Baader Halpha and FLI S2 and O3
filters

all subs were 20 minutes






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