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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Comet Lulin




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M51


This image was taken a couple of months ago and I'm just now processing it. If I remember correctly, it consists of 4min subs and I think I captured 4 total.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

M1-The Crab Nebula

Here is my latest imaging attempt. M1 again... :-) This fairly bright object was chose to test EQAlign http://eqalign.net/e_eqalign.html, a Drift Align Assist program that I had just installed prior to the session. Although I struggled with the translation at times , had to make several adjustments and battle gusty conditions, it shows to be a very promising tool. I will definetly give it another shot...


Conditions: Clear 35F Wind 10-15mph Seeing 3/5

Image & Equipment Details:
8x480s+6x340s

10" Reflector
EQ-G
DSIc
SPC900NC
EQMOD
PHD
EQAlign
PSE 2.0*PixInsight LE

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

The New Year with Clear Skies!







After many weeks of poor weather conditions, here are my latest imaging efforts to start off the new year. M74 (The Phantom), NGC 891, M109, M82 (Cigar Galaxy) and M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) All images were captured early Jan. 1st 2009

Conditions: 28F Clear, Fair Seeing and Transparency with 10-20mph Wind

Equipment and Software:

10” Reflector
60mm Refractor
Atlas EG-Q
DSIc
SPC900NC
EQMOD
PHD
Toshiba Satellite
PSE 2.0*PixInsight LE*Registax4

M74

1x660s + 3x480s=39min.

NGC 891

7x240s=28min.

M109

5x240s=20min.

M82

6x240s=24min.

M51

5x240s=20min.

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Night Sky Gems





Here are my latest imaging efforts...
M1: The Crab Nebula (Revisited), NGC 7331(Revisited), NGC 2372 and NGC 2392

Image Details:
M1
14x480s=1.86hrs.
NGC 7331
15x340s=1.4hrs
NGC 2372
4x480s=32min.
NGC 2392
1x480s, 1x240s, 4x30s=14min.

Equipment Details:
10” Reflector
Atlas EQ-6
DSIc
900NC
EQMOD
PHD
PSE 2.0*PixInsight*Registax4

Conditions:
Clear*Mid 30’s*Calm Winds*Fair Seeing and Transparency

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Monday, November 17, 2008

NGC 6946: The Fireworks Galaxy


Here is my latest imaging effort. NGC 6946 (The Fireworks Galaxy). This face on galaxy approximately 10 million light-years away, boarders between constellations Cepheus and Cygnus.

Conditions: High thin clouds and fair seeing

Image Details:
11x240s
10” Reflector
Atlas EQ-G
DSIc
Autoguided (Web cam)
PSE 2.0*PixInsight*Registax4

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

M1 & M82



Here are my latest imaging attempts. M1 (The Crab Nebula) and M82 (Cigar Galaxy) The conditions last night were not favorable for imaging, but I was testing some PEC software that I was unable to get to work…

Details:

M1
23x120s=43min. Guided Post processed in PSE 2.0 & PixInsight LE

M82
4x30s=2min. Un-guided Post processed in PSE 2.0 & PixInsight LE

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