Field size is approximately 0.5° x 1°, north is up, east to the left.
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observation report of that night (in German).
Exposure Data
Instrument: 4.9" f/3.8 Wright-Newtonian
F/stop: 3.8
Exposure: 16 x 1 minute
Camera: Canon 350D with Baader UV-IR-Cut-Filter
Sensitivity: ISO 800
Exposure start: 19:41 MESZ
Date: October 6, 2006
Location: Niederleis, Lower Austria
Conditions: Visual limiting magnitude 3.0 mag, seeing 2-4/10, temperature 14°C, no wind, no dew
Autoguider: none
Enhancement: Basic data reduction, combine, background flattening, logarithmic curves, color correction, noise filtering, crop
Notes: Light of the full moon, evening twilight and haze near the horizon brightened the sky background. No autoguider was used. 52 exposures were taken, but only 18 of those showed no trailing.