Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory - Oct. 15 & 22, 2006 Temperature low 40's°F, Transparency - Good, Seeing - 4/5 |
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 |
16 X 15 minutes - 4 hours - Color 8 X 15 minutes - 2 hours - Hydrogen Alpha |
Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 |
Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Average Combine, mild DDP, 5 iterations of R/L deconvolution. * Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Masks, Sharpening, Cropping, JPEG conversion |