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[fmendes]

Today Mars will transit over the Beehive Cluster. However sky will be cloudy from where I live, not mentioning the Moon at 94% tonight. So I took a few subs to test my new Ogma AP26CC yesterday.

 

I could have done a Comet stacking but I actually liked the sense of movement of Mars towards the Beehive cluster. Took me some work to align the diffraction spikes with the movement of the red planet. The background is dark enough, but there's some circular halo around the image that I need to investigate better.

 

Camera: Ogma AP26CC, Gain 100, HCG

Telescope: SW Quattro 200P with Starizona Nexus 0.75x reducer

Mount: iOptron CEM40

 

90x30 seconds, 19 bias, 20 flats, 13 darks. Stacked with ASIStudio, processed with Pixinsight and Affinity Photo.

 

 

 

[Sheridan]

Very cool i like it!

[06AwzIyI]

Very cool. You just inspired me to try this tonight!

[dx_ron]

Took a stab at it Thursday night (June 1). Was only able to shoot for ~ 25 minutes before the neighbor's house got in the way, so not nearly as much Mars movement as you have.

AT130EDT, Risingcam IMX571c, CEM40, PHD2, KStars/Ekos, quick processing in Siril

[fmendes]

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