Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory - Oct 31 & Nov. 17, 2007 Temperature low 40's°F, Seeing - 2.15" - 2.79" FWHM |
Telescope | TMB 130SS Refractor, F/7 on a Losmandy G11, Prime Focus, Image scale 1.68 arcsec/pixel |
Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XM monochrome camera w/CFW8 filter wheel Astronomik 13nm Ha filter Custom Scientific LRGB filters CCD temp -25°C |
Exposure Times | (Ha) 12X15m, (R) 6X10m, (G) 6X10m, (B) 9X10m Bin 1X1 |
Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 Focus - Moonlite Motorfocus w/FocusMax |
Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Median Combine, mild DDP, Adaptive R/L, G2V Color weights, RGB combine, Noise reduction. * Adobe CS - 2X Stairstep Image Size (Hoon Im plugin), Ha combine into R and Lum channels, Levels, Curves, Sharpening, Cropping, JPEG conversion |