| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory Sept. 19, 2006 Temperature low 60's°F, Transparency - Very good, Seeing - 4/5 |
| Telescope |
Celestron C8-N 8" Reflector F/5, Prime Focus, Losmandy G11 mount Image scale 1.52 arcsec/pixel |
| Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XCM color camera CCD temp -20°C |
| Exposure Times | 20 X 15 minutes 5 hours - Hydrogen Alpha |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 Focus - Moonlite Motorfocus w/FocusMax Astronomik 13nm Ha filter |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Average Combine, mild DDP, 2 iterations of R/L deconvolution. * Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Masks, Sharpening, Cropping, JPEG conversion |
