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In the last two articles I talked about getting back into astrophotography, easing into widefield imaging Well, as usual, GAS TAS (gear acquisition syndrome target acquisition syndrome) has taken over I wanted to shoot one of my favorite targets, The Coathanger but it’s pretty faint and pretty small, so I would need a 300mm lens to nicely frame Brocchi’s Cluster
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