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Old 09-March-2005, 05:02 PM
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Thanks for posting.
Your camera is catching great wide fields of the sky.

Its very nice to see the LMC.

If you could piggy back your camera on a polar or equitorial mounted telescope, you could shoot longer or stack multiple images.

Have you tried your camera out on a comet? There is currently a relatively bright one you can see from your location.

C/2005 A1 ( LINEAR )

http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html

You might try analyzing the stars you see in your images and see how faint a magnitude you are picking up.

I am going to look into getting a new digital camera that has a manual shutter to see what I can catch piggybacked from my scope.
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