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ONE-HOUR TEST_001.jpg

The mount is a Losmandy G11 with the Gemini system which has been upgraded using Maxon motors and the Ovision precision worm assembly. Autoguiding is performed with Dr. Craig Stark's PHD Guiding autoguiding software and the CCD-Labs Q-Guide autoguiding camera through an Orion ST-80 short-tube refractor (400mm, f/5).

1 - 60 min. frame with the SBIG ST-8300M (monochrome) CCD camera at -20C. Baader 2" UV/IR filter. Telescope configuration: TEC-140 (980mm, f/7) with the AP 27TVPH .75x focal reducer, yielding 789mm, f/5.6 and an image scale of 1.41 arc-seconds/pixel. Mount: Losmandy G11 w/Gemini.


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