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Started imaging at 22:20
Focus position main scope 12,330
I ended my observing at 6:15am
Tonight started with low cloud making it slightly hazy although the seeing was around 0.7’.
I found setting the guider to a shorter exposure of 3s improves the guide graph considerably.
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Makarian’s Chain – Final stacked image from 3 nights of data
I took another hour of Markarian’s Chain before moving on to M4 for another hour of data.
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M4 single 5 min sub
Next I slewed to the first new object for tonight M62 another glob very close to M4. I took 12 images of M62 the globular cluster in Ophiuchus.
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M62 single 5 min sub
All was going really well so I moved on to M39 the Open Cluster Cygnus and being high up I took 2 hours of data.
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M39 single 5 mins sub
Lastly before bed I took my first set of data on the Crescent Nebula NGC 6888
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NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula single 5 min sub