| Point & Shoot AstroImaging LAAstro.com by Bill Patterson |
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| Date Taken: December '03 Location: Mount Pinos, CA & Sunglow Ranch, AZ Equipment: Takahashi FSQ106 telescope & SBIG ST10XME CCD camera Notes: Tech Pan with a CCD? I hadn't been out for two months and was starting to twitch. Then the color filter wheel broke and I misplaced an autoguiding adapter. I fell back to unguided B&W images for the next two outings. Most of these images are stacks of 20 to 60 one-minute exposures. Kinda like shooting with an automatic camera - point & shoot! At the end, it was a lot of fun and good to be out under dark skies again. |
| NGC 2264 Cone Nebula region in Monoceros - note the Hubble Variable Nebula (NGC2261) at the bottom of the frame |
| M35 in Gemini - note the smaller cluster NGC2158 in the lower part of the image |
| M74 Spiral galaxy in Pisces |
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| N1365 - Spiral galaxy in Fornax - larger image shows several small galxies in the field |
| N4565 - Spiral galaxy in Coma Berenicies |
| NGC2244 - TheRosette Nebula in Monoceros |
| M97 - The Owl Nebula & M108 - spiral galaxy in Ursa Major |
| M109 - Spiral galaxy in Ursa Major |
| N4449 - Irregular "box" galaxy in Canes Venatici |
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