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M13 Globular Cluster, August 27th
William Optics WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik IR/UV, Red, Green and blue filters
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: :, L 70min, R 28 min , G 28 min, B 28 min
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, levels, curves, rgb combine and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3, GadientXterminator |
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M3 Globular Cluster May 30, 2009
William Optics WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik IR/UV, Red, Green and blue filters
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: :, L 35 min R 15 min , G 15 min, B 15 min
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker,levels, curves, rgb combine and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3 |
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M45 Pleaides December 30/31, 2008
William Optics WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Red, Green and blue filters
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: :, R 48 min , G 36 min, B 36 min
Seeing 3/10, Tranparency 4/10, very humid and foggy, I'm wating for a better moment to image the zeven sisters.
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker,levels, curves, rgb combine and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3
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M82 Galaxy December 28, 2008 processing revision 1
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha 13nm, Red, Green and blue filters
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: : L 9 min 1x1 , R 9 min , G 9 min, B 9 min, Ha 150 min, RGB was binned 2x2
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 6/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and combining in Photoshop CS3 |
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M101 Galaxy December 27, 2008 processing revision 1
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha 13nm, Red, Green and blue filters
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: : L 48min, R 24min, G 24 min, B 18 min, Ha 48min
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 6/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and combining in Photoshop CS3 |
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M81 Galaxy December 26, 2008 processing revision 2.1
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha 13nm, Red, Green and blue filters
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: : L 48min, R 20min, G 20 min, B 20 min, Ha 40min
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 6/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and combining in Photoshop CS3 |
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M33 Galaxy September 27, 2008 processing revision 3
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha 13nm, Red, Green and blue filters
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 126 minutes (5min subs ): L 24min, R 24min, G 24min, B 24min, Ha 30min
Seeing 6/10, Tranparency 7/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and combining in Photoshop CS3, GradientXterminator |
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IC1805 Heart Nebula September 19th, 2008 processing revision 1
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha Green and blue filters 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 110 minutes (10min subs)+16 min Green + 16min Blue
Seeing 5/10, Tranparency 5/10
Processing. Registered with Deep Sky Stacker, curves, levels and noise reduction in Photoshop CS3 |
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NGC 7023 Iris Nebula August 1, 2008 rev 1b (3/8/08)
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik IR/UV, Astronomik RGB
Guiding: PHD with WO 66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 180 minutes ( L =112 min, R=20min, G=24min, B,24min)
Seeing 8/10, Tranparency 4/10
Processing. Curves, levels in PS CS3, noise reduction, very difficult
to process |
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NGC 7635 Bubble Nebula July 23, 2008 processing rev 2.3
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm, Astronomik RGB
Guiding: PHD with WO 66SD and Atik16IC
Exposure: 85 minutes (Ha 11x5min, 15 minutes for R G B each, 12 minutes of Luminance)
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 4/10
Processing. Re-processed (13-10-2008). A more agressive (Ha dominated) version is here. Curves, levels in PS CS3, Ha only image
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NGC 7822 (part) July 4, 2008
WO 90 FD @F5.5
Atik 314L camera
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik Ha filter 13nm
Guiding: PHD with WO 66SD and 16IC
Exposure: 31 minutes (Ha 4x6min, 4 min G, 3min B)
Seeing 7/10, Tranparency 5/10
Processing. Combined in PS CS3: 1x1 Ha and 2x2 Green and Blue.
This image is very low on data but with curves, levels, noise
reduction and resizing this is what came out. |
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M57 (lost in space ;-)) , 21 May 2008
William optics
90 APO @F6.9
Canon 350D unmodified
Vixen GPDX
No filters
Guiding with PHD and WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 20x 180s ISO 400
Seeing 8/10
Processing: Deesky stacker, PS curves, level, noise reduction. This image
was made to check guiding after a mount improvement. Focus was
poor. |
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M108 (40% crop) , 24 April 2008
William optics
90 APO @F6.9
Canon 350D unmodified
Vixen GPDX
No filters
Guiding with PHD and WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 16x 300s ISO 1600
Seeing 5/10
Processing: Deesky stacker, PS curves, level, noise reduction |
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M101, 24 April 2008
William optics
90 APO @F6.9
Canon 350D unmodified
Vixen GPDX
No filters
Guiding with PHD and WO 66sd at F5.9
Exposure: 13x 240s ISO 1600
Seeing 6/10
Processing: Deesky stacker, PS curves and levels, noise reduction,
(re-processed 20 May) |
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M45 Pleiades, 17 November 2007
William optics
90 APO @F6.9
Canon 350D unmodified
Vixen GPDX
No filters
No guiding
Exposure: 12 minutes (10x 80s) ISO 800, longer exposures next
time ;-)
Seeing 5/10
Processing: (redo 25/5/08) deepsky stacker, levels and curves,
noise reduction, DBE in Pix Insight), for more info click
here |
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M31 Andromeda, 14 September 2007
William optics
90 APO
Canon 350D unmodified
Vixen GPDX
No filters
Guiding with ATK 16ic through WO 66sd @5.9 with PHD
Exposure: 6x 300 ISO 1600
Seeing 6/10
Processing: registax, curves and levels in PS CS |
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M31 Andromeda, 6 October 2007
William optics
90 APO
Canon 350D unmodified
Vixen GPDX
No filters
Guiding with ATK 16ic with WO 66sd @5.9 with PHD
Exposure: 10x 240 ISO 1600
Seeing 6/10
Processing: registax, curves and levels in PS CS |
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NGC 1805 Heart nebula, 16 November 2007
William optics
90 APO
Canon 350D unmodified
Vixen GPDX
Astronomik CLS filter
Guided with ATK 16ic with WO 66sd @5.9 with PHD
Exposure: 10x 300s
Seeing 6/10
Processing/notes: Stacked in Registax, curves and levels in PS
CS. Huge amounts of noise in this image so I resized to conseal
some of the noise. |
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