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Impact of Poor Setup (2)
 
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Object(s):
Bright nebula M42

Constellation:
Orion

Description:
Photo showing impact of periodic and non periodice errors.

Combination of poor telescope alignment (causing star drift) and uncorrected periodic error (causing the wiggles) produce a pretty, but otherwise useless photo

Astrophoto Image:
Example Image
File: M42-1.jpg (5 kb)
Subject: M42

Exposure:
10 mins

Equipment/Film:
Pentax ME Camera
Meade 8" f/10 SCT telescope (LX200)
Equatorial Wedge/Tripod
Setup: with teleextender and 25mm eyepiece projection

Observer/Location:
David Richards
Backyard
(suburban site, 50m amsl, mag 4 to 5.5 skies)
Aberdeenshire, UK

Seeing:

Sky Position:

Processing:
Scanned from colour photo print.

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Last Updated : 2006-Jan-20
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