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Three Widefields from the Early hours

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« on: September 11, 2008, 08:34:28 am »

Here we are, all single shots at ISO3200 from my newly upgraded camera.

Hello to a couple of old friends, M45 and the Hyades



Here's M31, M33 and even a little smudge of M110. What's the open cluster upper left anyone?



And here's Auriga with M36 and M38 near the bottom - sorry, I missed M37!



Clear skies,

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« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2008, 09:27:44 am »

Nicely done .... the weather here was less kind, a few patches of very poor transparency & a very strong wind, I didn't bother trying.
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NGC 752. Looks like a fine target for big bins or a wide field refractor.
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« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2008, 01:09:14 pm »

Very nice Paul 3 fine images some amount of detail well done.
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2008, 07:13:46 pm »

Very nice trio of images. Like M45 with the lonely patch of cloud and the shot with M31 and M33. The cluster which Brian named is visible to the naked eye on a good night. It looks like a diffuse tail-less comet.  Smiley. Funnily enough, not many people take images of it...until now...which makes the image even more unique  Smiley

It's marked on my edition of sky atlas 2000.0
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2008, 07:17:24 pm »

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NGC 752. Looks like a fine target for big bins or a wide field refractor.
The cluster is marked in Norton's at H.VII.32 but not mentioned in the text. Webb's "Celestial Objects" (6th edition) simply says "Wide, rich region, especially of small stars".
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