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Widefield M8 and M20 Widefield M8 and M20

Widefield M8 and M20

Contains: M 8, M20, Ngc 6469, M 20, Ngc 6526 ,  Ngc 6523, M 21, Ngc 6530, Ngc 6546, Ngc 6544, Ngc 6553, Ic 4685, Ic 1274, Ngc 6559, Ic 1275, Ngc 6568 …  and 11 more (click to view).   (hide these subjects)

Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Rikenon 135mm f/2.8

Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i

Mounts: Meade LXD75

Software: DeepSkyStacker,  BinaryRivers BackyardEOS,  Fitswork,  photoshop

Resolution: 4642x3007

Dates: June 16, 2012

Frames: 30x60"

Integration: 0.5 hours

Avg. Moon age: 26.26 days

Avg. Moon phase: 11.64%

RA center: 18:02:58.064

DEC center: -23:30:24.987

Pixel scale: 6.34 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 79.30 degrees

Field width: 8.17 degrees

Field height: 5.27 degrees

Description

This is a quick wide field image of M8 and M20 taken from Cape Cod. My main target for the night was Antares region, but since I was not confident that I would get a good image of this target given short time I had, I decided to take a quick image of M8 and M20. This was also 1st light of my new Rikenon 135mm F2.8 lens. There were no flats and darks. Dark skies make everything too easy.

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