Starfield off the handle of...the Big Dipper???

I assembled a 200mm fl camera lens/dlsr autguided setup and wanted to see what it could do on lengthy subs. Answer is it can go pretty much as long as you want Here I ran 4 minute subs and didn't have a bad one in the lot.

 

Looking at the results I was also rather surpised by the number of stars. I always think of this northern region of sky as being comparitively sparse especially in comparison to pretty much anything along the plane of the Milky Way.

 

Equipment

 

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Takumar 200mm prime lens

Imaging Cameras

Canon T1i Full Spectrum

Mounts

Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive

Filters

Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter

Accessories

OnStep GoTo Controller

Software

PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4

Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses

MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope

Guiding Cameras

ZWO ASI120MM

 

Acquisition details

 

Dates:

April 5, 2022

Frames:

82x240" (5h 28')

Integration:

5h 28'

Darks:

100

Bias:

100

Avg. Moon age:

4.01 days

Avg. Moon phase:

17.13%

 

Basic astrometry details

 

Astrometry.net job: 5650397

 

RA center: 14h50m44s.4

 

DEC center: +58°32′34″

 

Pixel scale: 3.226 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 38.470 degrees

 

Field radius: 3.864 degrees

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Resolution: 7168x4798

 

Data source: Backyard

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