nytecam
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05/31/09 03:35 AM
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ETX-70 snaps quasar

Long twilit evenings from 51N and the quarter moon nearby unhelpful last night but need my imaging fix

Currently wellplaced due south at dusk here's the brightest quasar [3C273 in Virgo] at ~mag 12.5 in a 100s exp [5x20s subs] with the SX Lodestar CCD which just record a field star ~mag 14.7 - see inset

As an aside I've be lurking on the CN Video Assist Forum and tested how faint my ETX-70+Lodestar combo got in video-refresh 1s - 8s exposures on M13 glob - no worries see here where even 1 second's exposure vastly outperforms my mark 1 eyeball on the same ETX



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