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Echo
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DSO Photos through Feb 15th
      #315989 - 01/19/05 03:49 PM

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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Blueshark928
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Re: DSO Photos through Feb 15th new [Re: Echo]
      #331611 - 02/03/05 01:30 PM Attachment (116 downloads)

M1 - The Crab Nebula/Pulsar

February 1, 2005

John Krawczyk
Crownsville, MD

Scope: Stellarvue SV-102 APO @ F/7.8
Mount: Losmandy G11
Camera: ATIK-2HS 1/3" CCD semi-cooled long exposure webcam based imager
Guiding: SV80/9d w/ST-4 autoguider
Filters: Astronomik Type 2 clear IR.

Exposures: 15x90 seconds captured in K3CCD tools

Processing: Images Plus and Neat Image. Cropped and resized 2x.

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John
SV-102APO
SV-80/9d
Losmandy G11
HX-916

Edited by Blueshark928 (02/03/05 01:31 PM)


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c131frdave
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Re: DSO Photos through Feb 15th new [Re: Blueshark928]
      #335021 - 02/06/05 02:10 PM Attachment (120 downloads)

Ok, this isn't very good, but it's the first astrophoto I ever took. In fact, it was taken through the first "real" telescope I've ever owned. This scope's first light was two days ago, where I wanted my first view to be Saturn. Saturn was behind the house. I noticed that Orion was within view, so I hit the GO TO to M42.

Five minutes after first light, I attached my Eos Rebel, and took three 25 second shots. Two of them were stacked for the image below. They are out of focus, and my collimation is off a bit because I didn't follow the directions when I installed my Bob's Knobs. But I'm proud of it.

Feb. 4, 2005

David Dearing
Pensacola, Florida

Telescope: Celestron N11 GPS XLT
Mount: Standard fork mount in alt/az
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel

Exposures: 2X25 sec
Processing: Aligned with Picture Window, enhanced in Photoshop.

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Tak NJP
SXV-H9

Various sizes and shapes of formed glass


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