NGC2469 in lynx, newton 10" & KAF8300

[jeremile]

Hello,

Another picture from Le Mans in France.

Lot of galaxies in this picture.

For luminance on 21 and 23 February poor seeing between 2.3 and 3 arcsec.

Setup:

Date : 21 et 23 février, 6 avril  2015

Instrument : Télescope Newton de 250 mm à F5

Monture : Skywatcher EQ-6 (Eqmod)

Caméra : QSI 583 WSG à -20°C (capteur Kodak KAF-8300) commandé par MaximDL et Maxpilote

Correcteur de coma : Baader RCCI, focale résultante de 1280 mm.

Filtres : L R V B Ha Baader

Guidage : Starlight Xpress Lodestar en Bin2 avec PHD2

Luminance :  2 h 20 = 28 x 300s

Rouge :  0 h 30 = 6 x 300s en Bin2

Vert :  0 h 25 = 5 x 300s en Bin2

Bleu  :  0 h 50 = 10 x 300s en Bin2

Image at 50%

Full size on my website : http://astrophoto-sarthe.fr/ngc2469.html

A frame of 300 seconds in maximdl, no bias, dark, flat (fwhm on star 2.028 arcsec)

Bye.

Jérémy

[MikeD]

Nice clean image, with lots of faint fuzzes in the field of view :afro:

Mike.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice image of an NGC we rarely get to see imaged here

[mdstuart]

Lovely image...I have seen 2469 with my 14 inch but it looks like I should go back with my 16 inch!

[jeremile]

Hello,

I'm happy you love that!