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June
24-25, 2003 : Pulled nearly an all-nighter
This is my
second night out with my new (to me) MX916. The first night was pretty much
an unpleasant experience. However, the addition of MaxIm/DL CCD software made
a huge difference in how last night went. I did a good polar alignment and found
my GOTOs were spot on. Despite the fact that I couldn't get the camera to come
to focus through my flip mirror and had to mount it to the ST80 directly (straight
through), I didn't have to remove the camera the entire night because I was
hitting my targets on the chip 100%. That's a tad over 1 degree x a tad over
1 degrees. Not bad!
I was incredibly
pleased and wanted to try a number of targets. I still have other images yet
to be processed in fact. But those require more than I want to put in right
now because of gradients. It seems dim objects require a lot more processing.
I can't believe
how much can be obtained in such a few seconds using the MX916!
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M101_10x120sDS_Againfullyprocessedwithtext.JPG
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M11_3x60sDS
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M31_7x60sDS3
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M39_2x60sDS
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M51_1x120s_1x180sDSfullyprocessedwithtext.JPG
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NGC7082_17x20sDS
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