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Wed/Thu, November 21/22, 2001

I imaged with the 7, 10 and 12-inch LX-200's at the Florida Imaging Centre using a couple of MX7C cameras and an MX5C. The 10 & 12" scopes each had an f/3.3 compressor to cut down on the focal length.

The moon was up for the first few hours of the night. I tried to image M30 and M72, but moonlight shining into the telescope created gradients that wrecked the images.

Thick fog put an end to deep sky imaging around 01:15, so I did some planetary imaging. The planetary shots came out well, but a 2x or 3x barlow would have enabled more detail to be imaged. When the limiting magnitude dropped to 2.0, I closed the observatory (at 04:20)! The low temperature for tonight was +8C.

NGC 253* (10") 63 minutes (63 x 30s)
NGC 1097* (10") 62 minutes (62 x 60s)
NGC 288* 31 minutes (31 x 60s)
NGC 1232* 60 minutes (60 x 60s)
NGC 1532* 22 minutes (22 x 60s)
Jupiter* (7") 0.15 second (5 x 0.03s)
Saturn* (7") 10 seconds(10 x 1s)
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