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Instrument:
Meade 178ED 7" Apochromatic Refractor Telescope
Focal Ratio:
f9 (prime focus)
Film:
Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)
Exposure:
30 minutes
Camera:
Nikon F4 (with DW21 6x finder and type M focusing screen)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Custom camera/guider/telescope adapters made by PreciseParts.
Guiding:
Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Date:
3/23/04
Post Processing:
Photographic Grain smoothed with Alex Mellinger's bgsmooth program.