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Moon Vic Fezensac
Moon at 95% in Vic Fezensac

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik L filter
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 0.001 second x12

Processing. Registered with registax V5 , wavelets, no further processing

Pelican La Coquile
IC 5070  June 12, 2009

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 150 minutes (5 min subs)

Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3
, GradientXteminator

cocoon
IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula August 12, 2009

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik L filter
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 65 minutes (5 min subs)

Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3

ic1396
IC1396  aout 12, 2009

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha 13nm filter
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 100 minutes (5 min subs)

Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3

m64
M64  June 12, 2009

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik L filter
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 140 minutes (5 min subs)

Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3
, GradientXteminator

Moon May 28, 2009

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik L filter,
Guiding: non
Exposure: 59 x 0.07s frames

Processing. Registered Registax V5, a little wavelet sharpening.

Leo_tri
Leo Triplet  May 21, 2009

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik L filter, CLS filter
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 120 minutes (10 min subs)
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 7/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3
, pix insight DBE

NCG11499Ha
NGC 1499 California Nebula (part) September 27, 2008 processing revision 1

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 148 minutes (6min subs)
Seeing 6/10, Tranparency 7/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3

ngc6888
NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula  September 26, 2008 processing revision 1

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 45 minutes (5min subs)
Seeing 6/10, Tranparency 6/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3

NGC1805
IC1805 Heart Nebula  September 19th, 2008 processing revision 1

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 110 minutes (10min subs)
Seeing 5/10, Tranparency 5/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3

NGC 281 Pacman Nebula  August 30, 2008 processing revision 1

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 72 minutes (9x8min subs)
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 6/10
Processing. curves, levels and noise reduction in PS CS3

NGC 7635 Bubble Nebula  July 23, 2008 processing revision 1.1

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 55minutes (11x5min subs)
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 4/10
Processing. Zone system curves, levels and noise reduction in PS CS3, color image is here

IC 59 & IC 63 in Cas  July 23, 2008 processing revision 1.3

WO 90 FD @ F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX

Guiding: PHD with WO66SD
Exposure: 95min (Ha 19x5min); Artemis Capture.
Seeing 6/10
Processing: Deepsky Stacker, curves, levels CS3

Veil Nebula III July 14, 2008

WO 90 FD @ F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD
Exposure: 25 min (Ha 5x5min); Artemis Capture.
Seeing 6/10, it doesn't get very dark at night this time of year
Processing: Deepsky Stacker, curves, levels CS3, Noise reduction

Veil Nebula II July 14, 2008

WO 90 FD @ F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Ha (rotated and combined with Luminance in PS below)
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD
Exposure: 45 min (Ha 5x5min + L 20min); Artemis Capture.
Seeing 6/10
Processing: Deepsky Stacker, curves, levels CS3

Veil Nebula I July 4, 2008, One of three 314L first light images

WO 90 FD @ F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik IR/UV block filter
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD
Exposure: 20 minutes (4x5min Luminance) Artemis Capture.
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 5/10
Processing: Deepsky Stacker, curves, levels CS3

Pelican Nebula July 4, 2008 One of three 314L first light test images

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD
Exposure: 10minutes (2x5min)) Binned 2x2, Artemis Capture.
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 5/10
Processing: Deepsky Stacker. Curves, levels, re-processed.

NGC 7822 (part) July 4, 2008. One of three 314L first light images 

WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD
Exposure: 24 minuten (4x6min) Artemis Capture. Binned 2x2
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 5/10
Processing: Deepsky Stacker, curves levels, nois reduction in PS CS3, color image is here

M57 Ring Nebula (testimage) 18 May 2008 

Celestron C8 @ F6.3 (my last C8 image, this scope was sold)
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
IR/UV block filter
Guiding: unguided
Exposure: 4minutes (8x 40s) Artemis Capture. Moon was almost full.
Seeing 6/10,
Processing: Deepsky Stacker, curves levels and noise reduction in PS CS3.

M27 Dumbbell Nebula (testimage)  18 May 2008 (02:30)

Celestron C8 @ F6.3
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
IR/UV block filter
Guiding: unguided
Exposure: 10 minutes (10x 30s) Artemis Capture; Moon was almost full. M27 was still low above the horizon.
Seeing 6/10
Processing: Deepsky Stacker, curves levels and noise reduction in PS CS3, but still very noisy.

M101 Galaxy 10 May 2008

William Optics 90mm FD F6.9
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
IR/UV block filter and Astronomik CLS filter
Guiding: PHD with SC3 and WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 35min (5 x 420s) Artemis Capture
Seeing 6/10
Processing: Deepsky stacker, curves levels and noise reduction in PS CS3, an ealier image can be found below. It is tempting to push this one too far but there is just not enough data in 35 min.

M109 Galaxy 8 May 2008

William Optics 90mm FD F6.9
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
IR/UV block filter
Guiding: PHD with SC3 and WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 35min (7x 300s) Artemis Capture
Seeing 7/10
Processing: Deepsky stacker, curves levels and noise reduction in PS CS3.

M97 Owl Nebula, 9 May 2008

William Optics 90 FD
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
IR/UV block filter
Guiding: PHD with SC3 and WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 60min (6 x 600s) Artemis Capture
Seeing 8/10
Processing: Deepsky stacker, curves levels and noise reduction in PS CS3

M51 Whirlpool galaxy , 5 May 2008

William Optics 90 FD
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
IR/UV block filter
Guiding: PHD with SC3 and WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 50min L (10 x 300s) in Artemis Capture
Seeing 8/10
Processing: Deepsky stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in PS CS3

M63 Sunflower galaxy, 8 May 2008

William Optics 90 mm FD at f6.9
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
IR/UV block filter
Guiding: SC3, PHD with WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 1hr40min (20 x 300s) Artemis Capture
Seeing 8/10
Processing: Deepsky stacker, curves levels and noise reduction in PS CS3

IC434 / B33 Horsehead Nebula, 16 November 2007

William optics 66 SD
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
No filters
No guiding
Exposure: 10 x 90s Artemis Capture
Seeing 6/10
Processing: registax, curves and levels in PS CS. Amazing what comes out with only 15 minutes. I will visit this object again in Ha and LRGB (and the 90mm scope)

NGC 2024 Flame nebula, 16 November 2007

William optics 66 SD
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
No filters
No guiding
Exposure: 8 x 120s Artemis Capture
Seeing 6/10
Processing: registax, curves and levels in PS CS

M31 Andromeda detail, 16 November 2007

William optics 90 APO @F6.9
Atik 16IC camera
Vixen GPDX
No filters
No guiding
Exposure: 2x 200s Artemis Capture
Seeing 7/10
Processing/Notes: Registax, curves and levels in PS;

M81, 14 April 2007

Celestron C8 @F6.3
SC3 modified webcam
Vixen GPDX
IR block filter
No guiding
Exposure: 20x 60s with k3ccdtools
Seeing 8/10
Processing/Notes: Registax, curves and levels in PS

M104, 14 March 2007

Celestron C8 @F6.3
SC3 modified webcam
Vixen GPDX
IR block filter
No guiding
Exposure: 20x 30s with k3ccdtools
Seeing 7/10
Processing/Notes: Stacking in Registax with darkframes, curves, levels and layer masking in PS,

M101, 14 March 2007

William Optics Megrez 90ED@F6.9
SC3 modified webcam
Vixen GPDX
IR block filter
No guiding
Exposure: 18x 30s with k3ccdtools
Seeing 7/10
Processing/Notes: Stacking in Registax with darkframes, curves, levels and unsharp masking in PS,

NGC 891, 14 March 2007

Celestron C8 at F6.3
SC3 modified webcam
Vixen GPDX
IR block filter
No guiding
Exposure: 18x 30s with k3ccdtools
Seeing 7/10
Processing/Notes: Stacking in Registax with darkframes, curves, levels and unsharp masking in PS,

M51,  18 February  2007

Celestron C8 @ 6.3
SC3 modified webcam
Vixen GPDX
IR block filter
No guiding
Exposure: 22x 35s with k3ccdtools
Seeing 8/10
Processing/Notes: Stacking in Registax with darkframes, curves, levels and unsharp masking in PS,

M81, 17  February  2007

William optics Megrez 90 ED @ 6.9
SC3 modified webcam
Vixen GPDX
IR block filter
No guiding
Exposure: 40x 60s with k3ccdtools
Seeing 7/10
Processing/Notes: Stacking in Registax with darkframes, curves, levels and unsharp masking in PS,

 
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