| Location & Date |
Backyard, Abbott Observatory August 10 (Ha) & Sept 10 (color), 2006 Temperature low 70's°F, Transparency - good, 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 |
27 X 7 - 3.15 hours - Color 20 X 15 minutes - 5 hours - Hydrogen Alpha |
| Other Information |
Image acquisition - CCDSoft V5 Guiding - Internal TC11 guider w/ CCDSoft Dither plugin Focus - Moonlite Motorfocus& FocusMax Orion Sky Glow filter stacked to a Baader UV/IR for color Astronomik 13nm Ha filter |
| Image Processing |
* Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Average Combine, mild DDP, 5 iterations of R/L deconvolution. * Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Masks, Sharpening, Cropping, JPEG conversion |
