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Observation by Steve Knight: Full moon + stars

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2018 Jan 31 - 13:28

Uploaded

2018 Feb 02 - 07:52

Objects

The Moon

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Constellation

Cancer

Field centre

RA: 08h51m
Dec: +16°51'
Position angle: +53°21'

Field size

3°02' × 2°01'

Equipment
  • Canon 550D
  • Starwave 70mm f6 refractor
  • Astrotrac
Exposure

2 sec ISO1600

Location

Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco

Target name

Moon

Title

Full moon + stars

About this image

I noticed that the previous version of this image had many hot pixels so reprocessed it to try and remove them and then stretched it to see what the magnitude limit was.  The dimmest star I can see here is BD +17 1971 at magnitude 10.14.  If anyone can find a dimmer one I will buy them a beer at Winchester Weekend!

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