More Raptor test images
Heres M37 and the small satellite cluster NGC 1907. Again this is full frame so you will need to zoom in to see detail. I wanted to show what the FOV for this telescope is.Myron
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4284
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First test images from the MSRO/RAC StellarVue SVX102T-Raptor
Dear RAC,
I have been working with Pete Laky to bring another remote telescope online as a combined RAC/MSRO station. This will use a Stellarvue? SVX102T-R (Raptor) which has a hand-figured triplet
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4283
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April sky materials from the Astronomical League
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RAC Treasurer
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#4282
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M100
Dear RAC,
On Saturday night I was able to get almost 3 hours of exposure on the spiral galaxy M 100 in Virgo. I used the 10" RC for this pseudo RGB image. Note all the faint background galaxies.
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4281
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Re: The future RAC imaging telescope
Myron
Kudos to you and your worker bees who have accomplished so much. These two scopes are impressive indeed!
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Phillip Carter III
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#4280
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Re: The future RAC imaging telescope
Myron,
The new scopes look great Myron! Appreciate your hard work to make this
possible. The new capabilities for science and imaging exploration will be
awesome.
The jack looks like the perfect
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Peter Laky
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#4279
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The future RAC imaging telescope
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Dear RAC,
Here¡¯s the solution Pete and I came up with to move the big 14¡± Celestron/ASKO in and out of the garage for star testing. A pallet jack from Northern Tools! Works great. I¡¯m
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4278
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MSRO Station 3
Dear RAC,
At last nights meeting during the MSRO report I discussed progress on our new Station 3 astrophotography setup. It uses a Stellarvue 102mm f/7 ( will be soon f5) SVX102T- Raptor and ASI 2600
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4277
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Link to March 2025 RAC Meeting Recording
Dear RAC<
Enclosed is the zoom meeting link for our March 2025 meeting and program held last night. We discussed activities at MSRO, and members shared their lunar eclipse stories. Finally, I gave a
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RAC President
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#4276
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M101
Hi Everyone!
MSRO 2 is performing super well right now - the go-to is spot-on and the
improved polar alignment allows for much better long-duration collection.
Attached is M101 that I imaged last
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Peter Laky
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#4275
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Re: NGC 2903 and Dwarf Galaxy KKH 51
Great shot!
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Wade Allen
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#4274
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NGC 2903 and Dwarf Galaxy KKH 51
Hello Everyone!
Myron nicely touched up the polar alignment on MSRO 2 which has made it
possible to do longer stretches of unadjusted imaging so last night I took
a crack at NGC 2903 early in the
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Peter Laky
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#4273
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March 2025 Meeting and Program
Dear RAC,
Enclosed is a zoom invite for our March RAC meeting. Business meeting will start at 7:30 and go until approximately 8-8:15. Following that will be open discussion by members about the
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RAC President
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#4272
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Re: Lunar Eclipse photos
I was in Richmond and the skies were clear at the beginning until clouds
moved in about half way to totality...but satellite images showed it was
clear just west of Richmond, so I drove out I-64 to
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Claire Gardiner
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#4271
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Re: Lunar Eclipse photos
Great pics!
[email protected]> wrote:
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Wade Allen
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#4270
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Re: Lunar Eclipse photos
Nice Myron. I see you got a few stars also
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Troy Major
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#4269
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Eclipse
Sent from my iPhone I got a few pictures from start until clouds set in. I used an old celestron gt 90 refractor and cannon m50 camera.
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Troy Major
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Re: Lunar Eclipse photos
Very nice. I got to see part of the eclipse, but it became overcast just at
totality.
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Glenn Holliday holliday@...
[email protected]> wrote:
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Glenn Holliday
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#4267
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Lunar Eclipse photos
Good Morning,
Here are a few pictures of this morning's lunar eclipse. I was lucky that I got to see it until clouds came in just before the end of the total phase. I used a Canon Rebel T3 at prime
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4266
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Animated gif of T CrB B band light curves between Feb 14-Mar10
Hi everyone,
I have been observing the recurrent nova T CrB over the past few weeks in a more controlled way-capturing hundreds of 40 second exposures using a remotely accessed 10" RC and QHY 294M Pro
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Myron Wasiuta
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#4265
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