gquinzi
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I am sooo pleased with the results and yes people, doing the mod was soo worth it! 12 X 5 min lights, 15 Flats, 15 darks, 15 Bias. Stacked using DSS and minimal curves and noise reduction with PS CS3. This is a quick and dirty processing but I was so happy with it I wanted to share 
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Orion 80ED w/ WO .8X FF and WO focuser upgrade
ST-80
Meade 8" SCT
F6.3 F/R
LXD75 Hypertuned w/Star patch GPS
Baader modified Canon 350D
DSI Pro
PHD Guiding
DSLR Shutter
Orion Dynamo Pro 17 (power tank)
A couple o' Naglers
A couple o' generic plossl's
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hockey4496
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beautiful...what scope did you use?
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Freddy WILLEMS
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That's a great image, I wish I had better seeing and a darker site.
Freddy
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Freddy
Meade 14" LX200 GPS UHTC GPS on permanent pier
Celestron C 14" Peltier cooled for planetary imaging.
Meade 10" LX200 & TITAN 50:1 mount Gemini 'go to'
Meade 127 mm f/9 APO & TITAN 50:1 mount Gemini 'go to'
W/O 102 mm f/7 APO doublet
Orion 80 mm f/7 ED
DFK 21AU04.AS
ToUcam 840 II pro
Canon 10D Unmoddified
Canon 40D Hutech moddified
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gquinzi
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Sorry I didn't put that in with the rest of the data. I used an Orion ED80, William Optics .8 FR/FF II, Autoguided with a piggybacked ST80, DSIPro and PHD. Mount is an LXD75. Thanks for the compliment hockey
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Orion 80ED w/ WO .8X FF and WO focuser upgrade
ST-80
Meade 8" SCT
F6.3 F/R
LXD75 Hypertuned w/Star patch GPS
Baader modified Canon 350D
DSI Pro
PHD Guiding
DSLR Shutter
Orion Dynamo Pro 17 (power tank)
A couple o' Naglers
A couple o' generic plossl's
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gquinzi
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OH Yeah!! While out there I wanted to see the difference a modded cam would do on M42 so I shot this 5 min exposure. Just a 5 min exposure with a burnt out core but...This shows potential Took it just before packing up.
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Orion 80ED w/ WO .8X FF and WO focuser upgrade
ST-80
Meade 8" SCT
F6.3 F/R
LXD75 Hypertuned w/Star patch GPS
Baader modified Canon 350D
DSI Pro
PHD Guiding
DSLR Shutter
Orion Dynamo Pro 17 (power tank)
A couple o' Naglers
A couple o' generic plossl's
Edited by gquinzi (01/04/09 03:46 AM)
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gquinzi
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That's a great image, I wish I had better seeing and a darker site.
Freddy
Well, I reside about 15 minutes from Philadelphia and to get these results, I traveled about 25 miles south east towards the pine barrons. This is what an unprocessed 5 minute shot looks like. When viewing this from the camera preview lcd window I honestly didn't think I was going to capture that much detail do to the sky fog and an almost quarter moon present. The flats, darks and bias definitely helped I think. Once DSS did it's thing, I opened up the tiff in CS3 hoping that my imaging session was not a lost cause. I neutralized the sky background, adjusted the levels and curves to find stacked image would not require a whole lot of processing. I'm sure another hour of exposure time and a moonless night would have probabably yeilded much better results. Cheers!
Edited by gquinzi (01/04/09 04:40 AM)
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Freddy WILLEMS
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gquinzi can't wait to try my modded canon 40D out !
It has been to cloudy and hazy lately here in Hawaii !
Is that a single 5 minute exposure ? ISO setting ?
Just GREAT !
Love to see more of your captures ! Keep 'em coming.
Freddy
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Freddy
Meade 14" LX200 GPS UHTC GPS on permanent pier
Celestron C 14" Peltier cooled for planetary imaging.
Meade 10" LX200 & TITAN 50:1 mount Gemini 'go to'
Meade 127 mm f/9 APO & TITAN 50:1 mount Gemini 'go to'
W/O 102 mm f/7 APO doublet
Orion 80 mm f/7 ED
DFK 21AU04.AS
ToUcam 840 II pro
Canon 10D Unmoddified
Canon 40D Hutech moddified
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gquinzi
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Thanks! ISO was set at 800 btw. I modded my cam November 4th and due to the weather, family matters and schedule, I hadn't had the chance up until now. I showed my fiance the processed image and she asked me, "so when are we headed back out to Cherry Springs PA?  ".
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Orion 80ED w/ WO .8X FF and WO focuser upgrade
ST-80
Meade 8" SCT
F6.3 F/R
LXD75 Hypertuned w/Star patch GPS
Baader modified Canon 350D
DSI Pro
PHD Guiding
DSLR Shutter
Orion Dynamo Pro 17 (power tank)
A couple o' Naglers
A couple o' generic plossl's
Edited by gquinzi (01/04/09 04:44 AM)
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hewholooks
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Congratulations!!!
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Hunter Wilson| Lexington, Ohio
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Celestron 9.25
APM/TMB 130/780 Apo Refractor
Orion ED80
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM Lens
SBIG ST-4000XCM
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Skyshed POD
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usnao95
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well im impressed! your set-up is close to mine, im waiting for my nikon d70 to come back from nikon. i havent gotten a chance to use it yet for my imaging, now im really looking forward to it, Nice photos
Eric
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Eric
Florida
Meade 8" 2080
Orion ShortTube 80 400mm
LXD75 w/autostar goto
Nikon D70 DSLR
Meade DSI Pro
Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000
Meade f/ 6.3 focal reducer
JMI motor focus<---best investment so far
HP ZD8000 laptop
many filters
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Andrew Welsh
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Nice work, there certainly is a difference. Not sure I'd want to travel to CSSP in the winter.. it would be awfully cold and your scopes would likely frost up (often very humid there).
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LX200 8" classic, f/10, Meade eq. wedge, .63x FF/FR
Canon 40D and 5DMkII, unmodified
Canon EF 200/2L IS, 300/4L non-IS, 100/2.8 Macro, 50/1.4, 85/1.8, 35L, 24L, 16-35L and Peleng 8mm fisheye
Orion Apex 102mm (4") Mak-Cass
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gquinzi
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Nice work, there certainly is a difference. Not sure I'd want to travel to CSSP in the winter.. it would be awfully cold and your scopes would likely frost up (often very humid there).
Thanks Andrew, yeah CSSP can be rather harsh even in the autumn. I just wish I could rent something near Wharton St forest so I could leave the rig unattende for hours while keeping myself busy instead of sitting in a car in the middle of nowhere with the heat cranked.
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Orion 80ED w/ WO .8X FF and WO focuser upgrade
ST-80
Meade 8" SCT
F6.3 F/R
LXD75 Hypertuned w/Star patch GPS
Baader modified Canon 350D
DSI Pro
PHD Guiding
DSLR Shutter
Orion Dynamo Pro 17 (power tank)
A couple o' Naglers
A couple o' generic plossl's
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waassaabee
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Very nice image!! I can't wait to see it after you've processed it 20 or 30 times.. 
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I showed my fiance the processed image and she asked me, "so when are we headed back out to Cherry Springs PA? ".
That's the difference... My WIFE would say, nice, when are you leaving?
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34N 120W
-My kingdom for blue squares!-
WO Megrez 90FD/TV 0.8x FR/FF
AT8RC
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justabob
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so I could leave the rig unattende for hours while keeping myself busy instead of sitting in a car in the middle of nowhere with the heat cranked.
I had to laugh when I read that, seems I have taken my best images in that exact situation
Congrats on the successful mod and great image! My self modded XT will be for sale as I just picked up a Huctech XS and gave my XSI to my Daughter for Xmas.
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http://www.pbase.com/rkn/astro&page=all
Vixen Sphinx SXW
Meade sn6
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM Lens
Hutech 1000d
Self modded 350d
ST8300c on order
DSI PRO II
Bob
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gquinzi
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Thanks everyone for the comments. Well, after tweaking the final (20 or so) images, I came up with this. I need to figure out how to get rid of that amp glow on the lower right hand corner though. Take care all.
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Orion 80ED w/ WO .8X FF and WO focuser upgrade
ST-80
Meade 8" SCT
F6.3 F/R
LXD75 Hypertuned w/Star patch GPS
Baader modified Canon 350D
DSI Pro
PHD Guiding
DSLR Shutter
Orion Dynamo Pro 17 (power tank)
A couple o' Naglers
A couple o' generic plossl's
Edited by gquinzi (01/05/09 12:52 AM)
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nickatnight
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Great images! Thanks for sharing. I'd be jumping up and down too with that Mod. 
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nickatnight
Celestron CPC 9.25" GPS
Lumicon 2" LumiBrite Diagonal
Meade s5000 18mm UWA, Meade 6.7mm UWA,
Parks G.S-5 10mm, Celestrom 40mm Plossl
Parks 2x Barlow, Meade Tele-Extender
Celestron f6.3 Focal Reducer
Lumicon UHC Filter and Deep Sky Filter
Canon Rebel XTi (prime)
Canon Powershot G9 (afocal)
Canon EOS T-Ring and Parks T-Adapter
Lumicon Univ DigiCam Adapter
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