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Nebulae & Galaxies
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PhotographerAndrey BatchvarovLocationWashington State, USADate28 Oct 2006EquipmentOrion StarShoot Camera and Orion ST80 Refractor, piggy back on LX200 8" SCT guided with MEADE DSI Color. Processing with FizFix |
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PhotographerEric JacobLocationSanta Barbara CADate12-22-2006, 9pmEquipmentCelestron 102mm Wide View, Canon 10D, ISO 800, focal length 500mm, f/5. A stack of 5 exposures, each 3-minutes. Stacked in Photoshop.DescriptionA faint reflection nebula. |
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PhotographerFrank R UrodaLocationJeddo, MI USADate12/06EquipmentEquipment list: C-11 scope Older G-11 mount (totally rebuilt and tuned by me) with FS2 goto and ESCAP steppers TCF-s focuser Optec 0.5 reducer ST2000XM with 2020 imaging chip and 237 guide chip CFW8 with A-Don LRGB I series and 13nm Astronimik Ha All housed within my Black River Observatory near Port Huron, MichiganDescriptionI started imaging this finely textured galaxy in November but had to wait weeks for the sky to clear to get the color I needed. My goal is always a natural look. |
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PhotographerBruce KarbalLocationIllinoisDateDecember 9 2006 2 amEquipmentPentax 125 SDP with dedicated reducer at f 4.9 connected to Finger lakes proline 16803, Takahashi FCT 100 as guide scope using ST 7xeDescriptionThis shot was "first light" using my Pentax 125 SDP and it's dedicated reducer. This reducer provides an 88mm fully illuminated image circle at F 4.9, extremely fast for a 5 inch refractor...with the incredible 88 mm image circle. Using this reducer, I'm able to obtain a 206 x 206 arc minute field of view...truely astonishing for a 5" refractor |
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PhotographerKelvin PhoonLocationSan Diego, CADateOctober 2, 2006EquipmentCelestron 80ED refractor at f/7.5, Meade DSI Pro II CCD camera, Schuler SII, Hydrogen alpha, and OIII filters, Meade LX90 guided mount.DescriptionThis narrowband filter image highlights an advancing boundary of cold gas transforming into hot gas emissions from the radiation of nearby stars in the Pelican Nebula, IC5070. Red and green represent ionized Sulfur and Hydrogen. 3 hours 22 minutes total exposure. |
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PhotographerMikko PäivinenLocationRajamäki FinlandDate26-28.10.2006EquipmentTelescope: 11" Celestron NexStar with f 6,3 foc.red. Camera:SBIG ST-2000XM. Guiding: SBIG AO-7 working at 5 herz. Filters: Standard RGB SBIG filters.DescriptionThis is a dark cloud near to the great nebula of Orion M42-M43. It is not hard imagine why it`s called a Horsehead nebula. Total exposure time was 3 hours. This is a RRGB image where the lumenence channel was exposed thru RED filter. |
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PhotographerBruce KarbalLocationIowaDate11/19/06EquipmentPentax 125 SDP at F 6.4 with Finger Lakes proline 16803 ccd Astrodon 50 mm square halpha filterDescriptionthis is a first light shot taken with my new Pentax 125 SDP refractor and Finger Lakes Proline 16803 cam It is a combo of 4 subexposures totalling 105 minutes The field of view is simply amazing ! The Pentax is native F 6.4 focal ratio, and the new Fli 16803 chip ccd is definately H-alpha sensitive, and has excellent QE, |
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PhotographerEric JacobLocationSanta Barbara, CADateNovember 17, 2006Equipment102mm wide field refractor (500mm @ f/5), Canon EOS D10 camera. A series of 12 exposures, stacked and processed in PhotoShop CS. The nebula's heart (trapezium) is a 1 minute exposure.DescriptionA combination of emission and reflection nebulae. |
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PhotographerPeter W. O'BrienLocationDerry NHDate11/17/06EquipmentMeade DSI PRO II behind 10" LX200R @ f3.3Description8 panel mosaic taken the night of November 17th under fair conditions. All images were taken with 2min intergration times. Lum images contains 10-20 stacked frames per panel. used H-alpha for red. All combined in PS |
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PhotographerBrian CombsLocationDeer Run Observatory, GeorgiaDate11/09-11/25/06Equipment12.5" RCOS mounted on a Paramount ME. Camera used was an SBIG 11000M.DescriptionThis is nearly 10 hours of data, including 4 hours of Ha data (to bring out the nebulosity in the spiral arms) taken on 4 different nights in November, 2006. |
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