Finderscope view - Cassiopeia

[ChrisLX200]

Just a bit of fun - the viewpoint from my finderscope (a mono GPCAM with 6mm lens). I'm pointing at the Pacman currently, Cassiopeia is easy to see, as is M31 off to the right. I'll leave it to you to figure out the limiting magnitude of what it shows :-)

ChrisH

[laudropb]

Looks like you have very nice dark skies.

[ChrisLX200]

Looks like you have very nice dark skies.

They're not bad most of the time, but this is pointing quite low to the East (you can just make out the top of my hedge on the bottom of the image :-) ) Up at the zenith is much better.

ChrisH

[Stu]

Nice one Chris. I reckon mag 8.3 ish? But that's looking on my phone, maybe you can see deeper on a monitor.

[jambouk]

Yes, I suspect the very faintest star you've detected is between mag 8 - 9.

Show off

James

[ChrisLX200]

I reckon you're right 8-9 or thereabouts. Original looks better (sharper) on my screen because PhotoBucket does strange things sometimes. I should have use .png format to upload.

I should have said, this is a10s exposure so only refreshing 6 times per minute, but that's enough to spot passing clouds, aircraft and satellites. I drop it to 3s when I need to see exactly where it's pointing to avoid trees etc.

ChrisH

[WaveSoarer]

A very nice way to capture an interesting image.

[mdstuart]

I can just see carolines rose mag 6.7...lovely sharp image...