| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory Nov. 4 & 11, 2006 Temperature mid 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 |
16 X 15 minutes - 4 hours - Color 12 X 15 minutes - 3 hours - Hydrogen Alpha |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 Baader UV/IR & Celestron LPR filter for color Astronimok 13nm Ha filter for Ha |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Average Combine, mild DDP, 4 iterations of R/L deconvolution. * Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Masks, Sharpening, Cropping, JPEG conversion Ha data blended into R channel at 75% |
