DATE
October 23rd, 2008
PHOTO
Exposure time: 37 x 8' (5 hours total)
Focal: 1175mm, f/5.0
EQUIPMENT
Imaging scope: C9.25 with Optec 5.0 focal reducer
Camera: Canon 40D IR/UV @ ISO 600
Guiding camera: StarShoot AutoGuider
Guiding scope: Orion ShortTube 80mm
Mount: Takahashi EM-400
SITE & CONDITIONS
Henry Coe State Park,Morgan Hill, California
Seeing: Good
Transparency: Good
SOFTWARE
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: PixInsight & Photoshop
COMMENTS
ALmost five hours of exposure and many more processing the image resulted in what I consider my best closeup up to date. The image is a crop from a larger FOV that originally covered the entire nebula, but even before I started shooting, my idea was to only capture the area that you see in the image. That's also one of the reasons I don't have alarger version of the image.This is a version in tone-mapped colors of
the original.
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2 Comments
Comments
Trond Ronde (Contact, Page), January 26th, 2009, 13:23
Absolutely fantastic!!
I've never seen that amount of details in an image done with a 9.25
Keep them coming!
All the best,
Trond
RBA (Contact, Page), January 26th, 2009, 16:55
Hi Trond, thanks for the comment!
The C9.25 is a really cool scope for imaging *if* it's well collimated. Keep in mind also that this image is a crop of the center, where everything is round and sharper :-)
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