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Crab Nebula in Hα

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Location & Date Backyard, Abbott Observatory Feb 8, 2007
Temperature low 20's°F, Transparency - Good, Seeing - 3/5
Telescope TMB 130SS Refractor, F/7 on a Losmandy G11, Prime Focus, Image scale 1.68 arcsec/pixel
Camera SBIG ST-2000XCM color camera
CCD temp -25°C
Exposure Times 9 X 20 minutes - 3.0 hours - Ha
Other Information Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5
Astronomik 13nm Ha filter - Ha
Image Processing * Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Median Combine, mild DDP, Adaptive R/L
* Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Cropping, JPEG conversion

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© 2007 Michael A. Siniscalchi