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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:Skywatcher ED80 Black Diamond APO
Imaging camera:Canon 1100D
Mount:Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro Goto
Guiding telescope or lens:Guide Scope William Optics 50x200 F/d:4
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5T
Software:Cartes du Ciel Planitarium, PHD2, EQASCOM, ASCOM Platfotm 6.2
Resolution: 4272x2848
Dates:Nov. 26, 2016
Frames: 1x300"
Integration: 0.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 26.84 days
Avg. Moon phase: 7.95%
Astrometry.net job: 1353149
RA center: 5h 35' 36"
DEC center: -5° 20' 20"
Pixel scale: 1.768 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 85.676 degrees
Field radius: 1.261
Data source: Backyard
This was my first real success in a longish exposure. Previously I could only manage a 60sec exposure before the stars started trailing.
Problems I over come were; Setting up the tripod so it was horizontally flat and pointing south correctly, guiding with PHD and setting the GPS and time accurately.
Image has no processing done at all.
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