| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory August 4 & 6, 2006 Temperature low 70's°F, Transparency - Very Good, Seeing - 4/5 |
| Telescope |
Celestron C8-N OTA on a Losmandy G11 mount 8" Reflector F/5, Prime Focus, Image scale 1.52 arcsec/pixel |
| Camera |
SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD temp -14°C |
| Exposure Times |
25 X 5 minutes 2 hours - Color 20 X 8 minutes 2.6 hours - Color Total 4.6 hours |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5 w/Dithering Focus - Moonlite Motorfocus w/Focus Max Baader UV/IR filter stacked to an Orion Skyglow filter for color data. Guiding - Internal TC11 guider |
| 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 |
