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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade LX200 8" GPS
Imaging cameras: Atik Cameras Atik 383 L+ Color
Mounts: Meade Equatorial Wedge on Tripod
Software: Fitswork4
Dates:April 7, 2020
Frames: 12x60" -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 0.2 hours
Darks: ~2
Bias: ~10
Avg. Moon age: 14.04 days
Avg. Moon phase: 99.41%
Temperature: 10.00
Astrometry.net job: 3390720
RA center: 7h 13' 52"
DEC center: +67° 52' 36"
Pixel scale: 1.162 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -5.755 degrees
Field radius: 0.251 degrees
Resolution: 1215x967
Locations: Home Observatory, Syke, Niedersachsen, Germany
Data source: Backyard
My first image of C/2019/Y4 Atlas.
Unfortunatley only a few subs, clouds came in.
It took me a long time to get to the actual position of the comet:
At my location the comet is located high up in the northern sky.
First I used Regulus in the south to focus and calibrate the telescope orientation.
When I gave the command to the actual comet position, the telescope moved the
"short path"by directly turnover to north and of course,
my camera bumped into the bottom of the fork!
( I forgot to remove the 0.63 focal reducer which used up the critical space)
Restarting all over again took some time and then I manually maneuvered via "the long path" from south to east and then high up to north to the target position.
All in all I wasted valuable time and I got only a few minutes left for imaging.
That's life....
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