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Thu/Fri March 23/24, 2000

I set up in the back yard in Oshawa tonight. Despite the gibbous moon that hung in the (already light polluted, hazy) sky, I got a very nice shot of M3 which is shown below. I also imaged M53 and NGC5466 but was not happy with the results (they will be re-done another night).

Later I did some testing of the new STAR2000 system and actually managed to successfully track a couple of 2-minute exposures (amazing for my scope!).

M 3 9½ minutes (19 x 30s)
M 3, 9.5 minutes at f/6.3
M 3 (10" f/6.3 LX200).