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This is an object familiar because of the spectacular Hubble Space Telescope images of it, referred to as the Cartwheel Galaxy (there's a few called that!).
I am really happy with the results of this image, for an amateur telescope like mine. A gusty wind was blowing at between 15 and 25km/hr for the whole night, but I still managed to achieve reasonable data.
I only had time for a short burst of RGB data before it went behind trees, so the RGB isn't so good. I also need to l
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This is an object familiar because of the spectacular Hubble Space Telescope images of it, referred to as the Cartwheel Galaxy (there's a few called that!).
I am really happy with the results of this image, for an amateur telescope like mine. A gusty wind was blowing at between 15 and 25km/hr for the whole night, but I still managed to achieve reasonable data.
I only had time for a short burst of RGB data before it went behind trees, so the RGB isn't so good. I also need to learn the accurate calibration of my RGB filters.
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| Camera: | SBIG ST7-ME | | Date: | 9th December 2007 | | Binning: | 1x1 for clear, 2x2 for RGB |
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