| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory Nov. 4, 2006 Temperature low 30's°F, Transparency - Good, Seeing - 4/5, Full Moon |
| 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 -25°C |
| Exposure Times | 12 X 15 minutes 3 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 |
