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The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Day 191 Monday 6th October 2014 M83, PGC 724525 and PGC 48132, NGC 2301 and NGC 5457.

DateMonday, October 6, 2014 at 1:59PM

 The weather is improving but the Moon is full and there are extremely high winds which make it difficult to observe here in Spain so I have abandoned the possibility for the moment. Hopefully when the Moon has gone the skies will be clear. 

 

I used the T30 telescope in Siding Spring to take an image of M83(above). This is a 300 second image of one of my favourite objects.

There are a couple of small galaxies visible on this image - here is a close up. There are a couple more that I have yet to identify.

 

and also used telescope T30 to image the open cluster NGC 2301

I used T11 in New Mexico to take a 600 second image of NGC 5457

 

 

 

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