I had to severely compress and shrink the image to meet bandwidth requirement. Color of stars took a beating. But this will give you some idea of the rich field it is in. For more info see:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resou...t/9054076.html

My software says it is still at mag 9.4 when I took this last night. The field is about 35' x 23' oriented like a star chart with north up, west to the right.

14" LX200R, L=5x1', RGB=2x1', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick

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Nice image Rick,

A beautiful star field.....which one is the Nova?

thanks,

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The one in the very center. That's SS Vulpeculae to the upper right about 7 minutes away. The nova is at 9.4 with SS just slightly brighter.

The starfield would be a lot prettier with far less compression and expanded 2.5x to full size. But I don't have a website to post it to so this will have to do.

Very cool star field, and cool to see the nova!

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Sharp! Rick, It sure is dense with stars. Too bad on the compression of the photo it would looked much sharper but looks great as is.