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This is Globular Cluster Omega Centauri, the brightest object of its kind, taken with this low cost imaging setup minus guiding (total cost around $300):

 

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Camera was Pentax K-X driven by intervalometer from:

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Total integration time was around 5 minutes with exposures of 30 seconds.

 

This was taken from beach house on Holden Beach, NC in April 2010

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