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Another trip with a small group of friends out to a remote dark site about 60km east of the city. The two Kevins, Ryan and David - thanks to you for showing me this great dark site.
The evening was calm and the seeing was quite good. The mosquitoes were fierce for the first 30 min and then just left, as they do around midnight.
Anyway the skies were great - very good transparency. The idea was to warm up with a couple of
I went back for some extra work on M17 (the swan, the omega, the checkmark or
Unguided with about 30 min integration.
Thanks for looking.
Tech details:
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Stellarvue 70 mm f6
Imaging cameras:Canon 60D
Mounts:SkyWatcher EQ5
Focal reducers:Stellarvue SFFR70APO
Software:Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 , SkySafari 6 Pro , Adobe Lightroom 2019 CC , Aries Productions
Filters:Optolong CLS -
Accessories:
Dates:July 11, 2020
Frames:Optolong CLS -
Integration: 0.5 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~20
Bias: ~20
Avg. Moon age: 20.82 days
Avg. Moon phase: 63.92%
Mean
Temperature: 15*C
Basic
Pixel scale: 2.616 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 7.261 degrees
Field radius: 2.274 degrees
Resolution: 5203x3478
Locations: Dark site, Richer, Manitoba, Canada