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SBIG ST10 E  LRGB Image with CFW8
L=10m, R=10m, G=10m, B=10m
T1T 1.2m Cassegrain Telescope with the 0.5x CaF2 Focal Reducer
5100mm
CFW8 Filter
Blind guiding without any autoguider !!!
4-lens Reducer with CaF2-element
2.4 arc seconds
slight deconvolution, DDP
half moon, 4 mag
Philipp Keller

One of the 3 first light images of the new Trebur T1T. The telescope is located near the airport of Frankfurt in the center of a little town. Light pollution is bad and local seeing may suffer also from the buildings. However it can be shown that a lot of these disadvantages and moon conditions can be partially compensated by the brute light gathering power of this telescope.

The extreme tracking performance of this telescope allowed to track the telescope blind without any tracking corrections for 2m integration times. After a better polar alignment maybe 10m will be possible.

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