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The techniques used to obtain these images are described in my Techniques and Limitations (Updated) page. $
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The pictures on this page were obtained with a
Leica D-LUX 3 Digital Camera. The technique used is "Afocal Astrophotography" in which a camera takes photographs while
shooting through a telescope's eyepiece.
My telescope is
a 1979-made Questar. It is a 3.5 inch Maksutov-Cassegrain with a focal length of 1300 mm. It
has a battery-operated Powerguide II that guides the telescope along the Right Ascension coordinate compensating
for the earth's rotation.
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72x. Resultant of thirty 1280 x 960
pixel frames each taken at 1/60th of a second. Processed using Registax (for alignment, stacking and wavelet analysis) and
AstroArt (for color balancing). Acquired 24 May 2007 at 10:28 pm EST in Washington, DC.
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