| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory June 21, 22 & July 17, 2006 Temperature high 70's°F, Transparency - Fair, Seeing - 4/5 |
| Telescope |
Celestron C8-N 8" Reflector F/5, Losmandy G11 mount, Prime Focus Image scale 1.52 arcsec/pixel |
| Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XCM color camera CCD temp -15°C |
| Exposure Times |
24 X 8 minutes 3.2 hours - Color 20 X 15 minutes 5 hours - Hydrogen Alpha |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition - CCDSoft V5 Focus - Moonlite Motorfocus Baader UV/IR filter stacked to an Orion Skyglow filter for color data. Astronomik 13nm Ha filter for Hydrogen Alpha data Guide Scope: Orion ED80 w/modified Celestron NexImage. Guiding program -GuideMaster |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Average Combine, mild DDP, R/L deconvolution. * Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Masks, Sharpening, RGB balance, Cropping, JPEG conversion The color image is a Ha+GB composite. The Ha data was mixed 75% with the R channel then recombined with the GB data. |
