
IMAGE taken with this mount:
10 exposures of 120 sec each at iso 800
Hutech modded Canon Rebel XT on a William Optics Zenithstar 80 Doublet Fluorite APO,
Gemini G41 Obs+ with 24V Pulsar drive unit.
Factory set PEC on, guiding speed on 3, but NO guiding corrections (!) were made during the exposures.

DATA:
Owner: Peter Pulles
Location: De Linge-observatory, Arkel, Netherlands, 51°52'19N 05°01'29E, alt. -6m
Date & time: May 9th 2009, 02h08m 02h43m UT
Conditions:
Seeing: 4/5
Transparancy: 3/5 (hazy, altocirrus)
Temperature: + 6.8°C
Wind: 4 bft (moderate breeze)
Humidity: 88%
Hardware:
Mount: Gemini Telescope Design G41 Obs+ with Pulsar driver
Main scope: Celestron C11 @ F10 (f2800mm)
Imaging camera: Celestron Neximage camera
Guidescope: William Optics Zenithstar 80mm Doublet Fluorite @ F5.9 (f480mm)
Guidecamera: Imaging Source DFK21AS.04
Compaq N600C laptop
Shoestring Astronomy GPUSB relay
Software:
Astrosnap PRO v2.1
PEAS (Periodic Error Analysis Software)
Pulsar Commander
Cartes du Ciel
PHD Guiding
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