[APML] First results with GEG

["Darin E. Fields" <dfields@wilkes1.wilkes.edu>]

Grettings APML-ers,

I just got back my first attempt at M42 using the Lumicon GEG on my C11.  It
is also my first try with Royal Gold Select 200 (I've been using RGS-400),
and I'm delighted with its performance.  I wouldn't say my tracking was
perfect that night, but given the vagaries of focusing the camera and the
ST-4 and getting it all aligned and running, I am happy with this as a first
try.  The processed image at the other end of the link is a stack of a 20
and a 15 minute exposure.  There's alos a link to the raw image right off
the CD.  I suspect I could expose longer on the RGS-200.  20-25 minutes is
max from my location on RGS-400.

http://course.wilkes.edu/astroimages/stories/m42.html


I'd appreciate any feedback, particularly if you see any "tell-tale" GEG
problems.


Thanks,

Darin

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We are embroiled in the cosmos. All roads lead to cosmology,
and the higher we climb, the farther we can see."   Timothy Ferris


Darin E. Fields  (dfields@wilkes1.wilkes.edu)
Associate Professor of English, Chair of the Department of Humanities
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766
Website: http://wilkes1.wilkes.edu/~dfields/index.html
Astronomy Pages: http://course.wilkes.edu/astroimages
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