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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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Tuesday
Nov182014

NGC 2477 Cluster Project

DateTuesday, November 18, 2014 at 7:00AM

The Moon is still on the wane and I imaged it this morning with my Sony Alpha 350 and telephoto lens - a quick handheld snap.

 

Here is yesterday's image for comparison

 Yesterday I used the T30 telescope at Siding Spring to take 4 images of NGC 2477 also known as M71. I am trying to produce a meaningful HR Diagram of this cluster so that I can estimate its age to see how closely I can get it to the currently accepted value of 700 million years. (SEDS)

I took B and V images at 60 second and 120 second exposures to try and ascertain the optimum exposure. I had previously taken a V image of the cluster with a 300 second exposure and many of the brighter stars were saturated - meaning that I can not measure their V magnitude. 

To be continued.

 

 

 

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