Skies were hazy and overnight temperatures were moderate, in the high 60's Fahrenheit. Friday night was the most transparent but I was having problems with the scope's tracking. On Saturday night we were clouded out as the Moon set and Sunday night was clear with haze and fog that varied through the night.
Despite the warm summer temperatures, I was able to image M27 with the Canon 10D using 40 second exposures at ISO 1600. A Denkmeier 2 inch OCS was used for the M27 image.
This was the first time I imaged Mars with both the Canon 10D and Olympus C2020Z cameras. Continuous mode was used on the Canon 10D with the lowest quality image setting (Small/Normal - 1536X1024). A 2 inch 4X powermate was used.
Sequential Mode on the Olympus was used to take many images quickly. Images were taken in SQ2 normal quality (size 640X480). Eyepiece used was a 17 mm Televue Plossel and Televue 2 inch Big Barlow with the Olympus camera zoom lens at full zoom.
M27 Dumbell Nebula:
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July 4, 2003:
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