| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory - July 16, 2008 Temperature - High 60's F |
| Telescope | TMB 130SS Refractor, F/7 on a Losmandy G11, Prime Focus, Image scale 1.68 arcsec/pixel |
| Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XM w/CFW8, AO8 Astrodon Tru Balance Filters CCD temp -15°C |
| Exposure Times | (L) 18X2 & 8X5 minutes Bin 1x1 - (R) 12X2, (G) 8X2, (B) 8X2 Minutes, Bin 1X1 |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition - CCDSoft Focus - Moonlite Motorfocus w/FocusMax |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 3.5 - Calibration, Grading, Alignment, Normalized Average Combine, Van Cittert deconvolution (after 4X resize), mild DDP * Adobe CS - Resized 4X w/Stairstep Image Size (Hoon Im plugin),Levels, Curves, Sharpening, Cropping, NR, JPEG conversion. Resized to 2X for web display. Wide field image is resized down from 4X to 1X. |
