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Echo
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DSO Photos Through January 15th new
      #288693 - 12/22/04 11:03 AM

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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Paul Lennous
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Re: DSO Photos Through January 15th new [Re: Echo]
      #289151 - 12/22/04 05:42 PM Attachment (137 downloads)

Paul Lennous
12/18/04
Orion and Running Man Nebulae
Orion ED80 (80mm f/7.5) on a SVP mount
Canon 300D at ISO800
2x10min, 2x5min, 2x1min, 2x15sec, dark frames subtracted
Hand guided
Processing with Photoshop

Enjoy,

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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 (12/22/04 05:43 PM)


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EricCCD
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Re: DSO Photos Through January 15th new [Re: Echo]
      #291022 - 12/24/04 07:06 PM Attachment (114 downloads)

Imger's Name: Eric Africa
Date of photo: December 15, 2004
Object: M42

Equipment: SBIG ST-8XE and CFW-8a through a Takahashi FS102 on a Takahashi EM200 mount.

Nebula exposure information:
L: 10 x 1 minute binned 1x1
RGB: 5 x 1 minute each binned 2x2

Trapezium region exposure information:
L: 10 x 10 seconds binned 1x1
RGB: 5 x 10 seconds each binned 2x2

Images captured with CCDSoft. RGB combine in AIP4WIN. LRGB combine, layers and color processing in Photoshop. A mild application of SGBNR with PixInsight to smooth out noise was applied to the final image. Image reduced for the web.

ERic


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Jeremy Perez
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Re: DSO Photos Through January 15th new [Re: EricCCD]
      #310487 - 01/14/05 02:01 PM Attachment (83 downloads)

Jeremy Perez
December 10, 2004 - 7:35 PM MST
Pleiades and Hyades Wide Field from U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ
Canon EOS 300D (piggyback on Orion SVP 6LT)
55 mm, f/11, ISO 800, 4 x 10 min

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Edited by Jeremy Perez (01/14/05 02:23 PM)


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Re: DSO Photos Through January 15th new [Re: Echo]
      #310609 - 01/14/05 03:57 PM Attachment (85 downloads)

M81 & M82
Nick King, Harrow UK
13th January 2005
50 minutes of L in 5 minute unbinned subs, and 6 minutes each of R, G and B in 2 minute subs binned 2x2 (clouds arriving rapidly)
Taken with an SXV-H9 through a TV76 with a TV 0.8 reducer and Astronomik Type II LRGB filters. Guided with GuideDog, an SC3 ToUcam Pro and a Megrez 80SD.

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Blueshark928
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Re: DSO Photos Through January 15th [Re: synner]
      #311306 - 01/15/05 10:01 AM Attachment (84 downloads)

M35, NGC2158 & IC2157
Open Clusters in Gemini

John Krawczyk
Crownsville, MD

Scope: Stellarvue SV-102 APO @ f/6.24 (Televue 0.8x Focal Reducer/Flattener)
Camera: Nikon D70 @ ISO400
Exposures: 5x300sec
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: ST-4 w/SV-80/9d Guidescope
Filters: None

Link to HTML and larger image

http://ardenastrophotography.com/M35.html

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SV-80/9d
Losmandy G11
HX-916


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