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1/6/2006 Alan Smallbone

M51 the Whirlpool Galaxy

Anza, CA

First light with my new Orion SSDSI camera. This is 38 x 120 seconds with the default gain settings. Captured and processed in Maxim Essentials and MaxDSLR. Taken through a Borg 45mmED with a Meade .33 reducer spaced to give 0.5x reduction. Mount was a Losmandy G-11. Seeing was poor with high thin clouds all night, the TEC cooling was not used. Median combined with dark frames subtracted (20 frames). The camera looks promising, this is very little editing just whipped up on the laptop while I am at my dark sky site.

Orion SSDSI,Borg 45mmED + 0.5x reducer

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