Observation by Steve Knight: APM 08279+5255 with a 30mm telescope

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2025 Jan 01 - 23:26

Uploaded

2025 Jan 02 - 13:10

Equipment

Seestar S30

Exposure

51 minutes of 10 sec exposures

Location

Banbury

Target name

APM 08279+5255

Title

APM 08279+5255 with a 30mm telescope

About this image

First clear night since I received my Seestar S30 on Christmas Eve. Thought I'd try some Deeper Sky Observing with a magnitude 15.2 gravitationally lensed quasar in Lynx. This is the raw FITS file displayed in AstroImageJ. Remarkable for a 30mm telescope in a Bortle 5 sky. These 88,000ish photons are 12.05 billion years old.

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APM 08279+5255.png (53.5 kB)

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