Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory Oct. 18, 2006 Temperature low 50's°F, Transparency - Fair, Seeing - 4/5 |
Telescope | Orion ED80 Refractor, F/7.5 on a Losmandy G11, Prime Focus, Image scale 2.54 arcsec/pixel |
Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XCM color camera CCD temp -20°C |
Exposure Times | 8 X 15 minutes - 2 hours - Hydrogen Alpha |
Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 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 |