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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - M8 and M20  / 0.5h, Rudy Pohl
Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - M8 and M20  / 0.5h
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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - M8 and M20 / 0.5h

Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - M8 and M20  / 0.5h, Rudy Pohl
Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - M8 and M20  / 0.5h
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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - M8 and M20 / 0.5h

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My First Auto-guided Image

This is my first attempt at auto-guiding my Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer, which I am happy to report worked out well. I was able to get 3, 5, 6, 7 and 10-minute exposures with round stars using a consumer-grade Nikon 70-300 VR G zoom lens set at a 230mm focal length.

It was a fairly short and quite windy session so I was able to get only 4 subs which I considered of acceptable quality; three 6-minute subs and one 10-minute sub which I stacked to produce this image of 28 minutes total integration.

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Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae - M8 and M20  / 0.5h, Rudy Pohl