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Markarian Chain of galaxies in Leo

59 light exposures @ 180 seconds

10 darks,

100 bias

no flats

D5300 ISO 400

AT65Q scope

CG5 with OnStep electronics and belt drives

Guidescope Orion Mini 50 mm Guide Scope

Guidecamera QHY QHY5L-II Monochrome

 

Quick stack and edit in Pixinsight, tweaks in PS/ACR

 

APT/PHD2/CdC

Sharpcap for polar aligning.

 

This came out as well as can be expected for my small equipment. I started imaging at 9:30 PM and ended at 1 AM . I hate the Meridian Flip!! Took a while to sort out guiding after the flip. I think my polar align was slightly off as I did not even guide in dec at first but had to enable after flip.

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Uploaded on April 22, 2018
Taken on April 25, 2018