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M13
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

m3
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

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

 

m82
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

m101
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

m81
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

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

ic1805 small
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

ngc7023
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

bubble
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 is here.

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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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