Observation by Adam Rawlinson: The Milky Way

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Adam Rawlinson

Observer

Adam Rawlinson

Observed

2026 Aug 12 - 23:41

Uploaded

2026 Aug 13 - 11:48

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Constellation

Cygnus

Field centre

RA: 20^h24^m
Dec: +38°37'
Position angle: -59°28'

Field size

44° × 25°

Equipment

Dwarf Mini

Exposure

Wide angle - unfiltered

Location

Sandhurst Kent

Target name

The Milky Way

Title

The Milky Way

About this image

So after the excitement of the eclipse, i stayed up late to count Perseids (26 seen in 30mins). Plonked the little miniscope on a wall to keep me company, pointed at Cygnus and told it to track.

The result is not the best in the world, but nicely shows some of the brighter gas clouds and star colours. The processing in the scope (presumably based on some median-clipping algorithm) gets rid of the zillions of pesky satellites i saw, but sadly also seems to have scratched the many meteors that passed across the field.

Not in same league as the LX200 or RC scopes, but neither of them can track and image this size field

Files associated with this observation

Milky Way - 12-13th August 26 .jpeg (292.2 kB)

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