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"I went to bed at about 10PM and I let it run all night without focusing. I blinked through the images and focus did not change. Also, I did all of my other images by letting it run through the night without focusing."

- Dream Astrograph customer

Customer images taken through 16" Dream Astrograph on night of 3/15/2010.

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M81/M82 image to the right taken in one night, 3/15/2010, by Mel Helm of SRO with a 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph using the custom 4" coma corrector, which allowed the use of the 4" Off-Axis Guider. Data was recorded with 400 minutes of exposure.

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"I went to bed at about 10PM and I let it run all night without focusing. I blinked through the images and focus did not change. Also, I did all my other images by letting it run through the night without focusing."

- Mel Helm, Sierra Remote Observatories, March 20th, 2010

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