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Re: CCD Imaging and Processing Group Challenge new [Re: Oldfield]
      #2648983 - 09/18/08 02:22 AM Attachment (73 downloads)

August 2008 LDN 1222 by Frank Zierhut

Taken with a SBIG ST-11000 and FSQ-106ED @ f/5
LRGB with 90:40:40:40 minutes
Imaged August 26/27. 2008
CCDSoft, CCDStack, Photoshop.
Picture is only a crop of the field....

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      #2699954 - 10/15/08 04:11 AM Attachment (61 downloads)

September 2008 (M15) by FrankZ

Taken on September, 26th 2008
in Germany, Frankenhardt

LRGB with 70:10:10:10 minutes
4x 15min for the background... (seems there is some nebulosity around)
and 10x 1min for Luminance.
RGB 10x 1min
Aquired through CCDSoft, calibration and stacking in CCDStack.
Final adjustments in Photoshop.
Imaged with a FSQ-106ED and STL-11000.
This is only a crop of the original image

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      #2757211 - 11/17/08 10:44 PM Attachment (60 downloads)

October 2008 (NGC 281) by Jim Lafferty

Imaged with the TOA130 and ST2000xm/Astrodon filters. 18 hours of total exposue (400 mins SII, 340 mins Ha, and 340 mins OIII) unbinned. Ha was also used for a luminance layer. Imaged from Redlands, Ca., over the nights of October 8,9,12,14,16,17,18, 2008.

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      #2812093 - 12/18/08 08:59 AM Attachment (53 downloads)

November 2008 (NGC 1333) by neutronman (JOhn A Davis)

FSQ 106 F/5
QHY8 camera, autoguided
8 x 20 min
Maxim DL, CS3

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      #2906480 - 02/03/09 08:36 PM Attachment (47 downloads)

December 2008 (M77) by gpm

Captured on: Dec 10-11 and Dec 29-30.
Telescope: Meade LXD75 SN8 (8" Schmidt-Newtonian f/4)
Camera: Meade DSI Pro II (with Meade RGB filters)
Exposures: LRGB 377:39:59:55 minutes

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      #2930552 - 02/16/09 08:18 AM Attachment (41 downloads)

January 2009 (IC 1848) by Jim Lafferty:

Imaged in narrowband from Redlands, Ca. Takahashi TOA130 with reducer, ST2000xm with Astrodon filters, on an NJP mount. 24x20 min Ha (480 minutes), 26x20 min SII (520 minutes), and 22x20 min OIII (440 minutes), all unbinned. Total exposure time was 1440 minutes (24 hours). By far my longest exposure of any image to date.

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      #3007035 - 03/27/09 12:16 AM Attachment (38 downloads)

February 2009 (NGC 2359) by Joe G:

February 18-19, 2009
Southern California
Q8 Thru 8" F4 GSO
Atlas Mount
13x10 minutes with IDAS LPS
8x15 minutes with Baader 7nm Ha
Processed with DSS, IP and PS CS3
Captured with Nebulosity
Guided with SSAG/PHD/SN6 with Eqmod

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      #3087486 - 05/05/09 10:16 PM Attachment (30 downloads)

March 2009 (M46) by weatherandsky:

Name: Kerry-Ann LH
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: March 16, 2009
Target: M46
Scope: C6-SCT @ f6.3
Mount: CGE
Camera: QHY-8
Exposure: 11x3min, flats and bias frames,
Guiding: PHD Guiding, DSI, 9x50 finder
Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, PS

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      #3140766 - 06/01/09 09:29 PM Attachment (18 downloads)

April 2009 (NGC 2403) by Nick Cook:

Total image data 6 hours (15 minute subframes)
Luminance: 15'x12
RGB: 15'x4 each channel
Scope: RCX 14" (F8)
STL11000M & AO-L
Astronomik Filters
Imaged between the 23rd to the 26th March 09 from Somerset, UK

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      #3196519 - 07/03/09 06:45 AM Attachment (16 downloads)

May 2009 (M3) by hewholooks:

SBIG ST-4000XCM
14x600sec
Darks/Flats/Bias Applied
Imager Temp -20C
Celestron 9.25 Reduced 0.63
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount
20% Crop
Lexington, Ohio
May 18, 2009

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June 2009 (M27) by darkforce:

Vixen VMC 260 L at 3000mm F11,5
Losmandy G11 Gemini L4 V1.5
SBIG STL 11000 M selfguided
Astronomik 2C HARGB
HA = 7x2200s = 3,5h

RGB each 5 x 600s and 2 x 900s

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      #3315955 - 09/04/09 10:20 PM Attachment (12 downloads)

July 2009 (Barnard 142/143) by Ozy:

- LRGB 300:100:100:100
- L 15min subs @ bin1x1
- RGB 5min subs @ bin2x2
- 10 hours total exposure
- Takahashi FSQ-106ED
- SBIG STL-11000M

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Re: CCD Imaging and Processing Group Challenge [Re: Oldfield]
      #3377411 - 10/07/09 09:35 PM

August 2009 (M31) by RBA:

Location: Henry Coe State Park, California
Date: 8/15 and 8/16, 2009
Scope/CCD: FSQ106-EDX and STL11k
Exposure: L: 18x5' & 10x20', RGB: 10x5' each
Processing: PixInsight Core 1.5 and Photoshop CS3



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September 2009 (IC1396 with IC1396a) by Ozy:

Exposure
- LRGBHaOIIISII 180:60:60:60:480:480:480
- L 5min subs @ bin1x1
- RGB 5min subs @ bin2x2
- Ha 15min subs @bin1x1
- OIII 15min subs @bin1x1
- SII 15min subs @bin1x1
- 30 hours total exposure

Equipment Used
- Takahashi FSQ-106ED
- SBIG STL-11000M
- Paramount ME
- Astrodon Gen 2 Filters

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      #3450581 - 11/16/09 03:08 AM Attachment (3 downloads)

October 2009 (NGC 672 and IC 1727) by Tomvictor:

Meade 10" ACF @f/7 on EM-200
Artemis 4021 w/Astrodon
L:8x600.
RGB: 5x600 bin 2x2.
Ha: 5x600 bin 2x2

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Re: CCD Imaging and Processing Group Challenge new [Re: Oldfield]
      #3454385 - 11/18/09 12:48 AM

oh my,fantastic

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