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M31 - First Light with W.O. Redcat and ZWO ASI6200, 



    
        

            Robert Q. Kimball
M31 - First Light with W.O. Redcat and ZWO ASI6200
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M31 - First Light with W.O. Redcat and ZWO ASI6200

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M31 - First Light with W.O. Redcat and ZWO ASI6200, 



    
        

            Robert Q. Kimball
M31 - First Light with W.O. Redcat and ZWO ASI6200
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M31 - First Light with W.O. Redcat and ZWO ASI6200

Acquisition details

Dates:
Aug. 27, 2020
Frames:
ZWO LRGB: 40×120(1h 20′) -5°C bin 1×1
Integration:
1h 20′
Flats:
10
Avg. Moon age:
9.20 days
Avg. Moon phase:
68.84%
Temperature:
99.00

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 3808555

RA center: 00h42m22s.1

DEC center: +41°2808

Pixel scale: 3.131 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 266.752 degrees

Field radius: 3.567 degrees

Resolution: 6788x4604

File size: 4.2 MB

Locations: Kimball Observatory, Las Cruces, New Mexico, None

Data source: Backyard

Description

This is my first image with my new W.O. Redcat and new ZWO ASI 6200 camera. I cature images using Sequence Generator Pro. On this first night, I couldn't get plate solving to work and my autoguider wouldn't focus.

I was very disappointed that the large field I was hoping for suffered from a large amount of vignetting due to the 2" filters. Therefore this image is heavily cropped. Without autoguiding I felt I had to limit my exposures to 2 minutes.

It was almost 100° here in New Mexico and there was a significant amount of haze.

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M31 - First Light with W.O. Redcat and ZWO ASI6200, 



    
        

            Robert Q. Kimball