SBIG ST10 E  LRGB Image with CFW8
L=16m 2xBin, R=10m, G=10m, B=14m 3xbin
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
2.5 arc seconds
deconvolution, DDP
for Trebur conditions above average transparency, 5mag lim. mag.
Philipp Keller, Christian Fuchs and the T1T-Team

We had to install a stronger motor to the focuser (the focuser tube weights 30kg) and after the repair we used the clear night to take some more pictures.

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.

Professional astronomers have measured, that the center of  M64 is rotating in the opposite direction than the outer regions! Stranger still - there is a middle region where the stars rotate in the opposite direction from the surrounding dust and gas. They think, that this could be the  the result of a collision between a small galaxy and a large galaxy - where the resultant mix has not yet settled down.