Echo
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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 CN members to submit their best DSO photos.
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 should 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 entries. Thanks and good luck!
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Queen of GOTO
Life is short.... get a massage!
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Suk Lee
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Reged: 10/07/03
Posts: 4315
Loc: Pleasanton, CA
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Suk Lee
7/14 through 7/18/04
Pelican Nebula in SII, H-alpha, and OIII
Takhashi Epsilon 160, ST2000/CFW8, Custom Scientific filters. SII, Ha, OIII = R, G, B = 3, 1, 3 hours binned 1x1
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http://www.siliconvalleyskies.com
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jcarlson
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Reged: 01/19/04
Posts: 93
Loc: Seattle, WA
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My first real dark sky shot that I'm happy with. 
M31 from the Table Mountain Star Party - 7-15-04
Canon 300d, Megrez 80mm, 5x4min stacked
Link to full-size: http://www.jasoncarlson.com/Astronomy/M31%20-%20Andromeda.html
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Suk Lee
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Posts: 4315
Loc: Pleasanton, CA
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Suk Lee
7/20/04 Pleasanton, CA
Center of the Milky Way
Nikon 24mm lens @ f4, ST2000/CFW8/Mandel adapter, STV/efinder + AP900
RGB = 45, 30, 30 minutes
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http://www.siliconvalleyskies.com
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Suk Lee
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Reged: 10/07/03
Posts: 4315
Loc: Pleasanton, CA
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Suk Lee
7/20/04 Pleasanton, CA
Deneb and Sadr in Cygnus
Nikon 24mm lens @ f4, ST2000/CFW8/Mandel adapter, STV/efinder + AP900
RGB = 60, 30, 30 min
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http://www.siliconvalleyskies.com
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MarkK
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/04/04
Posts: 550
Loc: Florida Tampa
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Mark Keitel Tampa Florida 6/17/04 Lum and 7/8/04 color
Takahshi FRC300 F/5.8
Here you go this is M20
Took the Lum layer about a month ago, and did it unguided. Did the color two nights ago.
Camera SBIG 10Xe
L = 10 x 300 sec 1x
R = 11 x 500 sec 1x
G = 10 x 240 sec 1x
B = 11 x 360 sec 1x
Larger resolution
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/galaxyquest/CCD%20Images/m20webnew.jpg
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Paul Lennous
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 225
Loc: Austin, TX
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How about film?
North American and Pelican Nebulae
Paul Lennous
July 17, 2004
Orion 80mm ED on a Skyview Pro mount
60 minutes hand guided on E200 film
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Paul
Celestron Super C8 Plus
ETX-125
4.25" f/10 Edmund Red Tube Newtonian
Orion 80mm ED
Edited by Paul Lennous (07/23/04 05:13 PM)
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Paul Lennous
sage
Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 225
Loc: Austin, TX
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Andromeda Galaxy
Paul Lennous
July 17, 2004
Orion 80mm ED on a Skyview Pro Mount
2 hours hand guided on Kodak E200 film
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Paul
Celestron Super C8 Plus
ETX-125
4.25" f/10 Edmund Red Tube Newtonian
Orion 80mm ED
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DJMcCrady
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 06/27/03
Posts: 1649
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Lagoon, Trifid, M21, and NGC 6544 wide-field
Takahashi Sky 90, Canon Digital Rebel
Small, low-res:
Large, high-res:
http://dandkmccrady.home.comcast.net/images/M8-M20-2004-07-14.jpg
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http://starryvistas.net
Tak Sky 90, Tak EM200, STL-4020M
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EricCCD
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Reged: 04/14/04
Posts: 1496
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This image was what inspired (necessitated?) my plunge into attempting LRGB combines in Photoshop. An LRGB combine using CCDSoft turned out awful - the entire image was this sick shade of red. I finally went into finding out just how to do LRGB combines using Photoshop. My earlier-posted M16 was the result. Here is my similarly-processed M20.
Name: Eric Africa
Images acquired the nights of July 15 and 16.
Equipment:
SBIG ST-7E, CFW-8a color filter wheel
Takahashi FS102 on a Takahashi EM200 mount
L: 10 x 5 minutes, binned 1 x 1
R: 3 x 5 minutes, binned 2 x 2
G: 3 x 5 minutes, binned 2 x 2
B: 3 x 5 minutes, binned 2 x 2
L, G, B images acquired at a friend's dark sky site July 15th. R images taken July 16th from my backyard (West Chester, Ohio)
Images calibrated, aligned and median combined in CCDSoft. RGB combine done in CCDSoft. Final LRGB combine and processing done in Photoshop 5.0.
Comments welcome.
Eric
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MarkK
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/04/04
Posts: 550
Loc: Florida Tampa
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Mark Keitel taken in my backyard Brandon Florida
Pelican/ NorthAmerican Nebula
Takahashi FS-60c scope, SBIG10xe camera, Custom Scientific filters 4.5nmHa R,G,B
Ha;R;G;B 7/23/04
Ha = 9 x 1200 seconds 1x
R = 10 x 300 seconds 1x
G = 10 x 240 seconds 1x
B = 10 x 360 seconds 1x
Combines in Maxim .93;1.00;.98
Gradients taken out in PhotoShop, curves and levels unsharpMask
Mark
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Undermidnight
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 05/25/04
Posts: 2046
Loc: Hilliard, Ohio
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M11
Jason Hissong
Celestron Ultima 2000 in Alt Az
Nikon D70 at ISO800
12x30seconds
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WO Megrez 90 on EZTouch Mount
WO Zenithstar 66 on Microstar Mount
PST
8" F/4.2 Ball Scope, "Marilyn"
12.5" F/4.3 Ball Scope, "Ada"
11x70 Oberwerks
6" F/6 Polishing
Pans and Naglers
"They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz." -Donald Miller
http://www.undermidnight.com
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apfevervictim
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Reged: 12/03/03
Posts: 407
Loc: Mobile, Al.
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Wade Knowles from a friends field in BayMinette (near Mobile).
Taken last night or this morning between 9:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. 6-7 Aug 04
M8 Lagoon Nebula
Orion XT10 OTA on CG5AS (yea, I know!)
Sony DSC-V1 afocally with Orion Highlight 35mm Plossl
10x30sec. stacked and processed in Resgistax2 and touched up in MSPaint.
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Wade
XT10 newt, TMB130SS  , 5"f5 refractor, 5"mak,
TV102 w/Feathertouch(soon to be on Astromart), 20x80LW & 15x70 Ultra Obies', PST, I need help!
Edited by apfevervictim (08/07/04 10:52 PM)
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Suk Lee
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Reged: 10/07/03
Posts: 4315
Loc: Pleasanton, CA
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Suk Lee
Milky Way center and Galactic Horse
Nikon D70 on EQ3 unguided, 24mm Nikkor @ f2.8
8 x 150seconds @ ISO400
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http://www.siliconvalleyskies.com
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Blueshark928
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 02/19/04
Posts: 2853
Loc: Crownsville, MD
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North Amercian and Pelican Nebulas
August 9, 2004
Crownsville, MD
Seeing average, transparency below average.
2x20min Fuji Provia 400 Olympus Om-2n w/135mm f/2.8 telephoto lens @ f/4
Piggybacked on St-4 autoguided G-11 mount
Registered and average combined in Registar
Cropped and Processed with Paintshop Pro 8.1
John Krawczyk
Crownsville, MD
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John
SV-102APO
SV-80/9d
Losmandy G11
HX-916
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Charles
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Reged: 06/12/03
Posts: 4111
Loc: Enterprise, AL
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M33: LRGB
August 13, 2004 Enterprise, AL
Seeing was about a 5 mag.
The LRGB is 15x7min(L) The RGB is from last year and I don't remember what the times were. I'll be collecting new color for this image this year.
Charles Hover
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EricCCD
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 04/14/04
Posts: 1496
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Veil Nebula (NGC 6992)
August 8, 2004
West Chester, OH
Name: Eric Africa
Equipment:
SBIG ST-8XE, CFW-8a color filter wheel
Borg 76ED on a Takahashi EM200 mount
H-Alpha: 8 x 15 minutes, binned 1 x 1 (4.5 nm H-alpha filter)
Images calibrated, aligned and median combined in CCDSoft. 5 iterations of Lucy-Richardson deconvolution applied. Final processing done in Photoshop 5.0.
Eric
Edited by EricCCD (08/14/04 11:49 AM)
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