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M16 Eagle nebula, Giovanni Paglioli
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M16 Eagle nebula

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M16 Eagle nebula

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Description

This is a new image acquired during the Madonie star party at the beginning of July 2013. A brand new telescope is been used for this High res shot, the new OS RiDK 305 f8 OTA. The seeing was very good during the two days of the star party, always between 1.3" and 1.8". Despite the telescope diameter of "just" 305mm, with the use of a small pixels ccd camera (using an 8300, 5.4microns/pixel sensor), a scale plate of 0.44arc/sec/pix was been achieved, revealing the full potential of this optics.

The shot is been acquired during the two nights and is an LLRGB+Ha image of about 120+30 min total in bin 1x1.

The object was very low on the local horizon so the seeing was compromised with some differential refraction issues too.

Optics was Officna Stellare RiDK305 f8 on a GM2000HPS mount with a QSI WSG8 ccd camera using a Lodestar guide camera.

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M16 Eagle nebula, Giovanni Paglioli