First light with a 35 year old Celestron C8

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Инопланетные войны и битвы: история и стратегия
Celestron C8 2000mm Focal length @ f10 Jupiter at 2200mm. I used a .63 reducer then added a 2x Barlow lens. It was intermittently cloudy and I didn&have time to yank the .63 reducer as it was in the front of the image train and would require even more calibration (meaning time I didn&have) had I done so, not to mention sticky fingers and clean lenses. Camera is monochrome and the filter is an L-Pro light pollution filter. did not have RGB filters in the filter wheel at the time (had Ha, Oiii and Sii for nebula imaging, forgot to swap out). Focus is off as I am half blind and did not have an auto focuser adapted for this telescope, nor did I have a consistently bright star (cloudy) nor an 8 inch Bahtinov mask. First light with this telescope, really just a calibration/integration run with the image train and all the equipment and controller, not to mention about 10 meters of cabling to manage. So really quite surprised I manage to image anything at all.

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