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shot on February 5, 2005 from my backyard in Castro Valley, Ca.
FIRST LIGHT FOR NEW BAFFLE CONFIGURATION
(scope needed collimation and seeing was soft unfortunately)
Compact Collapsible Cassegrain 18" @f/12.60 (F=5760mm), image scale = 0.24 arc-sec/pixel
ST10XME camera @-30C
AO7 @ 3.5Hz
FLI CFW1 Filter wheel
Optec IR-Blocked Lum filter
6 exposures of 10 minutes (binned 1x1)
one hour total exposure time
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