New Image: M79 in full moon

[sdbodin]

Been soo long since the BigDog has seen light, since Nov 5, terrible weather. Had to open up the roll-off even with full moon and poor transparency and get some photons. Went with M79 as it was transiting, only 17 deg above my horizon. Needed it for my Rokinon 135mm Messier project and took simultaneously shot with the Big Dog 16. Shot only 30 minutes with each. This diminutive glob is quite small in the Rokinon.

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Specifics, Meade 16 LX200 at f6.2, 2500mm efl, Atik 460ex mono, 5/2min ea. RGB, no lum. Rokinon 135mm telephoto, at f2.8, Zwo ASI1600 mc-cool, 30/1min subs, tossed one due to fumble fingers, no darks, barks, flats, bats, cats, bias, or any other back of the lens cap shots, just raw data. Guided with Meade 4 inch SCT, 1000mm efl, at 1 sec rate. Final images finished in PS CS5, cropped, but full scale.

Clear skies, cloudy AGAIN here,
Steve

[messier 111]

fine take , thx .