Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  IC 4537  ·  M 5  ·  NGC 5904  ·  The star 5Ser
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M5 in a hot summer night, Stephan Linhart
M5 in a hot summer night
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M5 in a hot summer night

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M5 in a hot summer night, Stephan Linhart
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M5 in a hot summer night

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Testing the first time finder scope guiding instead of off axis guider. Main reason was to be able to use a motorized field rotator.

Despite only 120s integration time there were roughly 15% subs with elongated stars. Have to identify the root cause of the flexure or the focal length of the guide scope with 180mm with 1300mm imaging focal length simply does not match.

The scope and imaging train should be rock solid.

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M5 in a hot summer night, Stephan Linhart