headpicwpo-My 30cm Meade LX200 SCT
 plus SX Lodestar-C colour cam - PNe & DN
Lodestar mono or colour CCD camera ~ £395 from Starlight Xpress Ltd

early mono ETX-70 DeepSky... 

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Images via an uncooled LODESTAR-C CCD in brief exposures - the cam has CMYG Sony colour chip and USB2 powered via single lead to laptop.   The controlling SX software,  via UBS2 to laptop, gives near live-view images on download.   Sametime auto-guiding+imaging possible!  The 30cm [12"] f/10 Meade LX200 SCT with Meade x0.3 FR = 1130mm fl f/3.7 FR and 20' x 15' fov.   

FAINT PLANETARY NEBULAE
n40=bowtie/ruby nebm76=little dumbbell perabell 84n6572png107.6-13.3n7662 blue snowball andn7094 pegn6894 cyg n6905 delpng68.6+1.1 = he1-4 cygpng68.7p14.8 lyrn6886 sgeabell 73abell 75sh2-140sh2-188 caspk80-6p1 egg cygn7009 saturn aqrabell 2 caspk121p0.1 caspk131-5.1 casn1514 pne taupk174-14.1 tau
M27 Dumbbell Neb in Vulpecula
planetary nebs M57+M27m27 vulm27 vulm27 pne best yetm27 pne 'deep' in 60s vulM27 bestm27 in demo
M27 Ring Nebula in Lyra
m57 lyrm57 pne lyrm57 lyrm57 lyrm57 pne lyrm57 pne lyr
M1 Super Nova Remnant in Taurus
m1 snr taum27 pne 'deep' in 60s vulM27 bestm27 in demo
DIFFUSE NEBULAE
m42 20s aveM42 in 1s expn2261 hubble var neb monn1555 hinds var neb + t taub33 horseheadn7635 bubble bn casn7133 bn cepn7023 iris  elephants trunk ic 1396 cepic 1396 cep efinderm16 eagle neb serpenscirrus [east] cygn281 cas pacman [part]
Planetary nebula in brief exposures from 1-100sec
m97 pne umamink1-64 pnepk53+24.1 pnen6765 pne lyrdodz1? pne hern6543=catseye pne dran7008 pne cygn7048 pne cygngc 6884 cyg pnengc 6884 cyg pnen7008 pne cygmink1-79 pnepk47+42.1 = abell39 pne hern6210 pne hern6781 pne aqlabell 43 pne hern6058 pne her

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