by Jean-Christophe Meriaux,

Date: 10/25/2009 - 12.30AM PDT

Location: Joshua Tree, CA

Seeing: 3/10

Transparency: 5/6

Taken with a used Soligor FD 200mm F/D 3.5 Teleobjective (bought for $40!) and an adapter for Canon EOS Camera (this is an old Teleobjective for non-digital 35mm camera).

With the adapter the focal length is increased to 250mm.

The teleobjective was stopped at approximately F/D 4

9 exposures of 104 sec on Digital Rebel XTi - no filter

Guiding: Atlas Mount - the Camera and  Teleobjective was piggybacked on an Orion Onyx 72ED.

Processing: MaxIm DL  and Paintshop Pro 

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