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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Info Post
























This H-alpha narrowband image from last night, shows a large area around



































the "Cone Nebula". Lots of nebulosity around there.































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Cone Nebula, H-alpha











Note the "Hubble's Variable Nebula" at Five a clock position.













(A small cometlike dot in the image)

















A Starless version to show the nebulosity better.















False color H-alpha version.



A grop from the center. This lens is very sharp, even full open @f1.8















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Weather in this winter has been #&%@$£2 and last night was no exception.
















After four hours I managed to save four 20 min. exposures,
















others were ruined by the speeding clouds.
















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IMAGING DETAILS:
















Optics, Canon FD 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8
















Camera, QHY9 astro camera
















Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-Guiding on LX200 GPS 12"
















Exposures, 4x1200s +darks, bias and flats
















Filter, Baader 7nm H-alpha

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