| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory April 8 & 14, 2007 Temperature low 30's°F, Transparency - Very Good, Seeing - 4/5 |
| 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 Custom Scientific LRGB filters Astronomik 13nm Ha filter CCD temp -20°C |
| Exposure Times | (Ha)5 X 15m & 4 X 30 min , (L) 18X5m, (R) 6X5m, (G) 6X5m, (B) 6X5m - All binned 1X1 |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 Focus - Moonlite Motorfocus w/FocusMax |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Grading, Alignment, Median Combine, mild DDP, 2 iterations of R/L deconvolution, RGB combine. * Adobe CS - Ha blend into R channel, Lum blend, Levels, Curves, Masks, Sharpening, Cropping, JPEG conversion |
