Observation by Grant Privett: M95 looking lonely

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Grant Privett

Observer

Grant Privett

Observed

2020 Feb 21 - 10:51

Uploaded

2020 Feb 22 - 11:00

Objects

M95

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Constellation

Leo

Field centre

RA: 10^h43^m
Dec: +11°26'
Position angle: +171°05'

Field size

1°38' × 1°14'

Equipment

Celestron RASA 11"
Starlight Xpress H18
No filters

Exposure

20x 240s

Location

Salisbury

Target name

M95

Title

M95 looking lonely

About this image

After a night where I lost about 5 hours to technical issues (and me being stupid) I finally managed to get some pictures as practice for the images I wanted. I ended up testing the set up on M95 which looked lost (and lonely) in space. The image was taken in a sky that was moonless, but with the transparency starting to go off. Clouds rolled in before the object I wanted was high enough.

The RASA is a lovely deep wide field system, but when taking pretty pictures its like any system, you have to match it to a suitably sized target - perhaps The Rossette nebula or something....

Files associated with this observation

M95 RASA small.jpg (724.3 kB)

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