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A rare clear frosty night and attempt to capture as much as possible intermitently over next 6 hours via piggybacked ETX-70 OTA mostly with homemade focal reducer in place.
First Nova Vul#2 low in west at twilight then comets Holmes and Tuttle high in southwest. Later tried for 12BLY range quasar in Lynx and finished about midnight with revisit to Horsehead [below] and first visit to Rosetta Neb in Mon - no filters used and all pics via 3-20m exposures in 30s subs autostacked via camera - great fun 
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Here's grav-lensed quasar APM 08279+5255 field in Lynx eg the marked mag 15.4 'star' @ 12BLY - only a tiny dot but pretty amazing for the little ETX-70 
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Awhile since Comet Holmes recorded - it continues to expands to over 80' across and gets ever fainter
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Comet Tuttle moves noticeably in this 5min exposure [in 30s subs] tracked on the comet nucleus
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Here's the first shot of the evening [Jan 5] eg 2007 Nova Vul#2 [=V459Vul] - this is the best 30s frame and not spoilt by drifting cloud low in west after dusk - its stellar penetration is almost as good as my shot of Jan 2 in 3min exposure
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Very nice pictures!
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Wow!
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Very nice, your ETX images continue to amaze me and others.
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Thank You Once Again,nytecam.You and ETX seem to be an inseperable pair.And I for one,am glad you are.
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A freaking gravity lensed quasar with a 70mm scope?!?!? 
Unreal. Fantastic!!!
BTW - I hope the naughty gnomes don't get me.
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Many thanks Chris, Zach, Todd, Max and UnkAstro for your interest  Here's the final shot from Jan 5 eg Rosetta Nebula in Mon which due to its faintness proved almost [but not quite] beyond the ETX-70 no filters used but note the dark ribbons of obscuring dust including the 'Y' above the central stars .....and now to process last night's goodies for Jan 7
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Here's a 5m shot [10x30s subs] of the Beehive Cluster M44 from last night it's processed as a negative to highlight the faintest stars and amazingly a few tiny background galaxies referenced from Megastar - those circled in pink have overlaying stars of comparable brightness and unresolved and therefore doubtful with this tiny aperture
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Here's last night's series of M42 where each successive image has received a third of the exposure of the previous - total exposure range 270s to 1s
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Here's two globulars and galaxy. NGC 2905 in Leo is my favourite bright galaxy that didn't make the Messier List; NGC 2419 is the Intergalactic Wanderer and M79 in Lepus below Orion on my first 'visit'
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Very nice,nytecam.The last set of 3 images is very impressive.The galaxy and the globulars are very well defined.Great Images,all 3.
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nytecam, your images are inspiring. I've been strictly a visual observer but your amazing shots have been wooing me to the "dark side." If I take up AP it will be your fault, sir.
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nytecam
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nytecam, your images are inspiring. I've been strictly a visual observer but your amazing shots have been wooing me to the "dark side." If I take up AP it will be your fault, sir.
Hi Mathteacher - I image through necessity as my skies are so light polluted that I'm losing maybe 2 to 4 magnitudes compare to a dark site whilst my cam cuts through the muck some 5 magnitudes fainter than I'd see from a dark site through a same scope - so it's an obvious no-brainer route
I used to contribute DSO [my passion] to the CN DSO forum until they recently barred imaging and made it exclusive visual [wonder why?] whilst the DSLR/CCD forums are a mishmash of pretties and I don't do pretties 
I was seduced by the 'dark side' over a decade and half ago during the photofilm era when reviewing for Astronomy Now mag the first CCD to come to UK eg SBIG ST-4 guider/cam. My buddies were not over impressed with my DSO results coming from my 18" Newt but amazed when I told them I'd used a 4-1/4" Astroscan with only 1/18th the light grasp  The rest is for me history. Rant over - here's a new but now routine Horsehead in 6min exposure and colourised
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here's an large OC in Mon found via Cartes du Ciel
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and yet another large OC in Mon
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finally from Jan 7 the Beehive M44 OC in Cnc in regular presentation
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and finally Comet Tuttle
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Wow Maurice, you've been busy since I last checked in on your "ETX-70 sees" thread! I think I spent a full 20 minutes this morning (and that's a lot for me lately) gazing at the great string of images you've taken over the last few days. Some beautiful and deep shots in there. Always a pleasure. Like mathteacher (above), I'm also worried that I may be lured someday to the dark side thanks to your incredible work.
Although you don't necessarily need them, clear skies to you,
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nytecam
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Thanks Dale for your interest Last night at the club's monthly meeting following a talk on the Cassini Mission by Jerry Workman, I did a short PowerPoint presentation of these recent images called DSO imaging from suburbia with ETX-70 and it was well received.
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Only the cresent moon this evening before cloud and rain moved in
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That's great!
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