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10/08/2017 12:00:17 AM · #1
Post your outtakes from the Free Study 2017-09 challenge here.
10/08/2017 12:44:48 AM · #2
Here's a few more shots I captured over two nights at the Connecticut Star Party. Any of them would have been completely beyond my ability last year.

10/08/2017 12:06:40 PM · #3
Great stuff! Can you list or post a picture of your set-up? You don't mention the lens/telescope combo or focal length/magnification factor, though your description of the "winner" was very helpful otherwise.
10/08/2017 12:33:13 PM · #4
Sure, this is my personal telescope in the foreground. It's an Astro-Tech 115mm triplet apochromatic refractor on a Celestron CGEM II equatorial mount. The native focal length is 805mm at f/7, although I was using a focal reducer for the Orion photo (and maybe on all of them) that brings it down to 644mm at f/5.6.



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10/08/2017 12:39:54 PM · #5
Thanks!
10/13/2017 10:55:42 AM · #6
Originally posted by scalvert:

Here's a few more shots I captured over two nights at the Connecticut Star Party. Any of them would have been completely beyond my ability last year.



I would expect such shots from the likes of NASA, but from an amateur they are somehow more fascinating.
I had no idea there could be so much color, but that just reflects my ignorance of astrophotography.
10/13/2017 11:01:45 AM · #7
Amazing images. My world feels very small right now.
10/13/2017 07:55:34 PM · #8
Thanks. It takes a LOT of work to wring these shots out of Connecticut's light pollution.
10/13/2017 09:11:56 PM · #9
Lovely shots Shannon. Amazing what's out there.
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