A night with a lot of thin clouds, and also a lot of problems concerning guide stars, but still the main goal was achieved, imaging the quadruple Quasar J1004+4112 in Leo Minor. This Quasar was discovered in 2003. Actually it's four images of the same Quasar because of lensing by a foreground galaxy, which is even faintly visible below component "D". Distance is about 9 Billion Light Years.
Another Quasar is visible, QSO J100441.0+410944, distance is about 7 Billion Light years.
The image above is a 100% crop with annotation. Version B shows boxes arond the two Quasars in the full field, and the original is the untouched full field.
> Click here to see a Timelapse of the telescope at work imaging the quasars <24 Luminance frames of 600s each were used, but I will do this again some day and try to get NGC3104 a bit higher up in the field.
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