NGC4565

NGC4565, the Needle Galaxy, photographed fromi OMSI's Hancock Field Station in the Eastern Oregon Desert in May, 2002.

12" F/10 LX200 SCT with Lumicon F/6.3 focal reducer.

90 Minute Exposure

Hypered Kodak Royal Gold 200 hypered at 50c, +3psi, 2hrs..

Autoguided with SBIG STV CCD autoguider. During the exposure, the feedback from the STV indicated that it was fighting with the mount showing an oscilation of errors in one axis over +/- 2.