My 2nd AAPOD! 2009 Solar system review January 01 2010 Astronomy.FM

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Mike's AAPOD featured!

This is my 2nd!  :)

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Happy New Year!

Michael A. Phillips' Astronomy Equipment

NOT a real setup

Astronomy - Solar System - Mars (2009 - 2010)

Astronomy - Planetary - Saturn (2009 - 2010)

Perseus Double Cluster

From the 1st night of the Veil work.

Late season Veil Nebula

I really still consider myself a DSLR beginner, but since this came out ok and I plan to add more subs, I thought I'd share now

Here's 2 nights worth of 1 hr:

360s x 5 @ ISO 1600
600s x 3 @ ISO 800
1hr total

Imaged: Meade OTA
6" Schmidt-Newt f/5
Guided: 4" Skywatcher
Mount: Celestron CGE

Guided, Unmoded
LPS-P2-FF Filter, Darks
& WB Flats applied

Manually dithered every 3 or so subs.

Hope you enjoy as much as I did seeing this for the 1st time (visually and AP-wise!)