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Skeet today...

Shot alright, 2 rounds of 25shots, I got 14 in the 1st and 16 in the
2nd. Above my usual ~50% hit ratio.

Mike

The missing Jupiter from Oct '09

I kept good logs of this night, but forgot to process it!

Single best of the set....

yea to me for finding it!

This takes planning *AND* strategy!

I'm on a roll with catching up on lots of stuff and have been meaning to do this for some time now.

Yes, this is:

Jacob 8weeks old as Luke Skywalker (July 2004)

Megan 9weeks old as Princess Lea (July 2006)

Brian 9weeks old as Han Solo (February 2010)

Galaxies galore!

Check out the mouse over version for labels!

http://maphilli14.webs.com/Astronomy/8-Webs/DSO/Galaxies/MAP-M84-M86-201000308-large.jpg

Catchup on some DSLR processing - more coming!

Pacman nebula - I didn't think this was enough data and was going to hit it up another night, but it slipped and well, here it is with 1 hour:



IC 342 / Caldwell 5 is a small galaxy.  I think I need better planning software, this was a bit of a tough target but I was happy to see it in the end...

My simple M109 - barred spiral galaxy

I saw the Cloudy Nights (http://www.cloudynights.com/) challenge the other month and was immediately struck by how cool this barred spiral looked.  I had to try and it turns out to be a somewhat hard target at 10th magnitude and small to boot.  Here's my shot.  I wasn't even sure I had in a single 1-2 min test shot and conditions we just average on the transparency with a waxing moon early in the session.  I'm still pretty happy with the result!