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Looking at M44 through an eyepiece, Andreas Zeinert
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Looking at M44 through an eyepiece

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Looking at M44 through an eyepiece, Andreas Zeinert
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Looking at M44 through an eyepiece

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I didn't find any interdiction in textbooks for exhibiting astronomical photos in circle format ;-). Therefore I decided to show this beautiful open cluster like it would appear if you looked at it trough an eyepiece of an instrument with very low magnification. Hope you can enjoy it !

It was taken with my Fuji XT30 and the Telyt Leitz 180 mm f/3.4 which is a remarkable lens designed almost fifty years ago for silver based analogue photography with much less resolution than our modern sensors. Still it can deliver decent pictures.

And for those who might suspect that I hide odd things in the "corners" I added a four sided version :-))

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Looking at M44 through an eyepiece, Andreas Zeinert