A beautiful night for astrophotography... You get a handful of these a year in the Houston area, really. Outstanding transparency with very good seeing. The STV autoguider was averaging about .5 arc second corrections. I've tried to get a good shot of this through the scope many times, but always something went wrong (the last couple of times it was bad polar alignment). Got it right this time! Now to take a few more to stack...
Newer and better: North American Nebula & Pelican Nebula Canon EOS 20Da image
Photo by Dick Locke
NHAC "Sammy Neal" Observing site, 10/18/03
30 minute exposure (just one, not a stack)
Tak FS-102 prime focus with reducer at 610mm focal length, f5.9
SBIG STV autoguider using Celestron ST-80 guidescope
Losmandy GM-11 mount
Kodak LE 400 film, OM1n camera
Negative Scan, Nikon Coolscan IV ED, Processed in Photoshop
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