| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory - December 23 & 30, 2006 Temperature mid 30's°F, Transparency - Good, Seeing - 3/5 |
| Telescope | Orion ED80 Refractor, F/7.5 on a Losmandy G11, Prime Focus, Image scale 2.54 arcsec/pixel |
| Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XCM color camera CCD temp -25°C |
| Exposure Times |
15 X 15 minutes - 3.75 hours color 8 X 30 minutes - 4 hours Ha |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 Celestron LPR w/Baader UV/IR filter - Color Astronomik 13nm Ha filter - Ha |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Median Combine, mild DDP * Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Ha blend into Red and Lum channels, Cropping, JPEG conversion |
