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hese images of the Flame and Horsehead Nebulae may be of some interest, not because of the images of these popular targets themselves (by normal standards, they are rather poor) but because of how they were acquired. They were taken using my 80mm f/5 refractor with a focal reducer, on a table-top EQ1 mount

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