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Another good imaging session last night via the piggybacked ETX-70 into the 'early hours' when the cold finished me off. Included Leo 1/2 dwarf galaxies, globulars M3/53 + N5053, galaxies N4565/4725 all in CVn, M104 [Sombrero] and quasar 3C273 in Vir, galaxies N3044/3115 in Sextans - a busy evening but don't know if they'll 'come out ok' 
Here's the first - globulars M53 and within same field feeble NGC 5053 where the brightest stars peak at mag 14 - and they're there
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and nearby GC M3 in CVn 
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Wow, That M3 is spectacular ... 
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nytecam
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Wow, That M3 is spectacular ...
Thanks Matt - wonder how many stars in M3 can be 'seen' with a 70mm OG Here's remote [but brightest] quasar 3C273 in Virgo some 2BLY distant. It's brightness is variable from a typical mag 12.7 but seems in this unfiltered shot at a brightish mag 12
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M104 - the Sombrero Galaxy also in Virgo
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Edge-on galaxy NGC 4565
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Galaxy NGC 3044 in Sextan also seen edge-on
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and another near edge-on galaxy NGC 3115 Sextans
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Galaxy NGC 4725 is near face-on in Cvn with faint attendant galaxies
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Very feeble and local dwarf galaxy Leo 1 is just above Regulus
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nytecam you did it again. LOL
Sombrero and the edge-on galaxies are especially nice
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Excellent group of galaxies there, nytecam. NGC 4565 is stunning. 
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Remarkable images, nytecam! Thanks for sharing!
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You gotta love that image of M104, considering it taken using "our" little 70mm acro scope.Well done!
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Thanks OD, Dale, Walter and Kenny for your interest After some Meade DSI pics [separate post] catching-up with the SX CCD series on 12 April. The moon troublesome for some DSO fields nearby - here's a Mars + moon montage but they weren't that close together but both to same scale shows the relative field of the SX cam on the ETX-70 at native f/5 
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here's the Castor [alpha Gem] above the moon
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and Saturn + two sats further east in Leo next Regulus
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Here's a real DSO - the tiny Eskimo planetary nebula very close to the moon - inset and enlarged shows its non-stellar appearance via the ETX-70
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Finally for session before cloud intervened - M109 galaxy in the Plough [and well clear of the moon] shows nice detail
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Nytecam, you sure can squeeze every drop of light with that '70 of yours. I am amazed!!!
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Excellent group of galaxies there, nytecam. NGC 4565 is stunning.
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are you autoguiding with the lx200.
what kind of exposure lengths are you using.
that is pretty sweet from a lil etx70.
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nytecam
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are you autoguiding with the lx200. what kind of exposure lengths are you using. that is pretty sweet from a lil etx70.
The ETX is piggybacked on the LX200 and driven in RA but not guided - the short sub exposures [recorded in top-line of the pic header] are co-added automatically via the camera software plus a later contrast stretch/titled and post here
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