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LEO Triplet
Leo Triplet (M64, M65, NGC 3628)
February 21-22, 2012
Location: Rancho Hidalgo, NM
Telescope: TEC-140 (F7)
Camera: SBIG ST-8300M
Mount: AP900 GTO
Luminance: 20x10 minutes
Red: 9x10 minutes
Green: 9x10 minutes
Blue: 9x10 minutes
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Comment by Bernard Miller on March 18, 2012 at 10:50am
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Jules,
This was indeed done at F7. There is always a tradeoff as you mentioned. You can use a reducer, but your image scale goes down. I have been retty happy with the TEC-140. I would like to get a 12 or 14 inch scope so I could do small galaxies and planetary nebulae.
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