C2020Z & C2000Z Olympus Digital Cameras for Deep Sky Imaging

M33 GALAXY- 9/6/02 by Gary Honis

Cherry Springs Dark Sky Park

Black Forest Star Party

 

Image is a median stack of twenty-three 32 second exposures. I used frozen batteries in the air-cooled Olympus C2000Z camera to help reduce noise. 31mm Nagler was used on a 20 inch Starmaster with GOTO Skytracker. Ambient temperature was in the high 50's. Skies were pretty transparent but not very steady.

M33:

 

 

 


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