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PUPPIS CENTRE AREA - WIDE FIELD

 Constellation    

(Image centered at: ra 07h:43m / dec - 39º 15')

December 2021, 10 km East from José Ignacio, Maldonado, Uruguay

DATA

TYPE: Constellation

VISUAL BRIGHTNESS: N/A

OBJECT SIZE: FOV 24º 48' x 17º 03'

DISTANCE: Approximately 26,000 light years to the plane of the Milky Way

IMAGE INFORMATION

SCOPE: 50 mm Canon lens stoped at 4,5

CAMERA: Canon 700D Hutech Modified

MOUNT: SYNTA EQ3 (unguided)

FILTERS: none

SKY CONDITIONS: Close to the Atlantic Sea. Bortle 4

EXPOSURES: Total of 60 minutes. (20 shots x 3 minutes)

OBJECT DESCRIPTION AND IMAGE SESSION

Took a portable (old) gear during last summer vacation in Uruguay, and drove to the east though the cost road. Found a place behind some bushes to place the mount and the Synta Eq3. A rough polar alignment and starting shooting 180 secs exposures with a 50 mm Canon lens. No computer, no auto guiding. Just the car battery to feed the EQ3 Synta old motors which behaved quite well.

Aiming the the Centre of Puppis.

Lots of nice star cluster are shown in the FOV. And also faint nebulosity structure surrounding the central region.