Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade LX200 8" GPS
Imaging cameras: Atik Cameras Atik 383 L+ Color
Mounts: Meade Equatorial Wedge on Tripod
Focal reducers: f6.3 focal reducer/field flattener Meade
Dates:April 21, 2018
Frames: 120x30"
Integration: 1.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.86 days
Avg. Moon phase: 34.10%
Astrometry.net job: 2025391
RA center: 12h 26' 18"
DEC center: +12° 59' 0"
Pixel scale: 1.676 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 11.718 degrees
Field radius: 0.459 degrees
Resolution: 1569x1189
Locations: Home Observatory, Syke, Niedersachsen, Germany
My first attempt to capture the holy grail of Astrophotography: The Markarian's Chain
A number of circumstances made it very difficult to get a decent image:
a) the weather condition: hazy top atmospheric layer and turbulances
b) my focal length too high, even with the 0,63 reducer: only partial capture of the chain.
c) the most difficulty : no suitable guide star in the surrounding, therefore unguided session
d) because of c) only 30 sec captures, hence not much details of the Galaxies visible
anyway, I tried to make the best out of it.
thanks for watching
Wanni
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