Echo
Post Laureate
Reged: 09/29/03
Posts: 3320
Loc: So Cal
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Welcome to the Cloudy Nights Reader’s Gallery Submission Forum. Each month, we ask Cloudy Nights members to submit their best DSO photos in this thread.
For your photo entries, please provide a description that includes:
Your First and Last Name;
Date of photo (can include the time);
Description (title) of the image;
Relevant photo information (exposure length and equipment used).
This is important! If you don't supply ALL information, we won't be able to use your photograph!!!!
Please note: due to copyright issues, all photos MUST be original (If they aren't then you will be banned from this section of the forum!).
To facilitate the judging we respectfully ask that you not enter comments in the photo thread. You will find a commentary thread for the DSO photo entries. Thanks and good luck!
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Queen of GOTO
Life is short.... get a massage!
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EricCCD
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/14/04
Posts: 1945
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Name: Enrico Africa
Date of photo: Feb 3-5, 2005
Description: M81 and M82
Imaged with an SBIG ST-8XE and Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB filters on a CFW-8a filter wheel. Takahashi FS-102 @ f/8 wiht an IDAS LPS filter on a Takahashi EM200 mount.
L: 19x10 minutes binned 1x1
R: 12x5 minutes binned 2x2
G: 12x5 minutes binned 2x2
B: 12x5 minutes binned 2x2
Images acquired and calibrated with CCDSoft. Luminance combined using Ray Gralak's Sigma-Reject 10. RGB combine and pre=procesing with Maxim DL. Final LRGB combine and processing with Photoshop CS.
Eric
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lineman_16735
Tak-o-holic
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 3118
Loc: Central PA
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lineman_16735
Tak-o-holic
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 3118
Loc: Central PA
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Just tried Kodak Elitechrome 200 slide film for the first time. This is a 25 minute exposure of the Rosette Nebula autoguided with the DSI. Focus was a little soft and some coma. 10" LXD Schmidt Newtonian F/4.
Chris Provost
Edited by Echo (02/21/05 11:27 AM)
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lineman_16735
Tak-o-holic
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 3118
Loc: Central PA
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Same setup but this time the California Nebula with some sky fog.
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PeterL
super member
Reged: 03/02/04
Posts: 122
Loc: Santa Fe, NM
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Here is a shot of the Medusa Nebula, a large and faint planetary nebula in Gemini.
Peter Lipscomb
December 4th, 2004
Medusa Nebula
ST-7ME/CFW-8a with Astrodon Tru-Balance color filter set on my Takahashi FS 102 at f/6 with a focal reducer. Processed with median combine and dark frame subtraction in Maxim DL/CCD. Color combining and final processing in Photoshop CS.
Auto-guided Ha20/L20/R10/G10/B10 with sub-exposures of 60 seconds in each data set.
Edited by PeterL (02/27/05 04:14 PM)
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lineman_16735
Tak-o-holic
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 3118
Loc: Central PA
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Here is my Rosette after some processing from a friend.
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Chris
X-Astronomer
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Undermidnight
BEOTS "Tweener Cup" winner
Reged: 05/25/04
Posts: 3411
Loc: Hilliard, Ohio
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Name: Jason Hissong
M83 in Hydra
Taken on 02/05/2005 at Hocking Hills State Park, Logan, Ohio
Scope: Celestron Ultima 2000, Meade 3.3 reducer, Hutech IDAS LPR Filter
Camera: SBIG ST7E cooled to -20 C.
Exposure: 11x300s, 1x1 binning, autoguided with the ST7E
Processing Details:
Images aquired with CCDSoft V5
Dark and Flat calibrated each frame, adaptive add combined, soft DDP processing in Images Plus.
Debloomed, selective smoothed and unsharp masked in Photoshop 5.0.
Exported to JPG with IrfanView.
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"There's only two things that excite a man, expensive toys and real expensive toys." - Red Green
WO Zenithstar 66 on Microstar Mount
8" Ultima 2000, "Wilma"
8" F/4.2 Ultralight, "Marilyn II"
12.5" F/4.3 Ultralight, "Ada II"
11x70 Oberwerks
6" F/6 Figuring
Pans, Orthos, and Naglers
"We who cut mere stones, must always be envisioning cathedrals." - The Quarry Workers Creed
http://www.undermidnight.com
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synner
sage
Reged: 01/13/04
Posts: 215
Loc: Harrow, UK
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M51 widefield
Nick King
Harrow, UK 05/02/27
11 x 10 minute exposures at ISO800, taken with the Hutech 300D through the VC200L at f6.4 using an Astronomik CLS filter. Guided with GuideDog, a TV76 and an SC3 ToUcam Pro.
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http://www.synner.co.uk
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Blueshark928
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 02/19/04
Posts: 2853
Loc: Crownsville, MD
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NGC2392 - The Eskimo Nebula
March 6, 2005
John Krawczyk
Crownsville, MD
Scope: Stellarvue SV-102 APO @ f/19.5 w/Televue 2.5 Powermate
Camera: ATIK-2HS
Exposures: LRGB 39:15:15:15 (3 min subs)
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: ST-4 w/SV-80/9d Guidescope
Filters: IDAS LPS & Astronomik LRGB Type 2 color filter set
Dark subtraction and separate image combines in Images Plus
Color channel registration and combine with Registar
Luminance layering and all other processing with PaintShop Pro 8.
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John
SV-102APO
SV-80/9d
Losmandy G11
HX-916
Edited by Blueshark928 (03/07/05 10:50 PM)
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Ralph McIntosh
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 11/26/03
Posts: 908
Loc: Hanau/Germany
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Ralph McIntosh
10.03.2005
M42 (Orion)
Location: Germany, Herchenhainerhöhe
Using a modified Canon 300D
8" F4 Newton
Losmandy GM-8 Mount
Stack of 7, 3.5, 1.5 and 0.5 min images
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http://home.arcor.de/ralph.mcintosh/
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