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nickatnight
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/14/08
Posts: 1751
Loc: Santa Clarita, CA (LA Suburbs)
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Hi Folks. Thought I'd give NGC6888 a go with the EON after getting in close with the CPC925. I think I like the EON version better. This was shot last night before the fog and clouds whited out the world.
This is 1hr and 39min of 3 minute exposures with the modded Canon XTi @ iso1600 through the EON 72mm @ f4.8 with the IDAS LP2 filter, piggybacked on the CPC925 on the Mitty wedge, guided with SSAG through the CPC. Stretched in PixInsight and tweaked in Photoshop.
Comments and suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking.
Link to the bigger version:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/4026459535_6767a9201c_o.jpg
And the small version for here...
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waassaabee
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Pretty clean shot you got there Nick. All the stars and wisps of red are very nice.
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Gary
34N 120W
-My kingdom for blue squares!-
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AT8RC
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Taylor
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Loc: Federal Way, WA
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Nice!
That Eon72 looks like a good little scope.
I think I'm putting a Canon Rebel on my Xmas list this year to complement my mono CCD, you guys are all throwing up some amazing pics with them.
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Some OTAs, a mount, some eyepieces, and some cameras
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s58y
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Nice. You even managed to capture some of the faint background nebulosity, without using an H-alpha filter.
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Hutech 30D, SBIG ST-402 autoguider
SV80S, TV102iis
Old camera lenses: 800mm f/5.6, 180mm f/3.4
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Psyire
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Posts: 979
Loc: 55* North
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Nick, that looks pretty good, I too like the background nebulosity that is starting to poke through. Did you get a chance to try out the new Polar align routine?
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TV 31T5-Nagler, 8&13mm-Ethos
EarthWin Binoviewers w/ 24mm Panoptics
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nickatnight
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Reged: 04/14/08
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Loc: Santa Clarita, CA (LA Suburbs)
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Thanks everyone. I was lucky to squeeze this in last night.
Psyire - Yes, I forgot to mention, I updated my hand controller and use the All Star Alignment this weekend. I had to align a few times Saturday until I got the routine down. So far I'd say it gets me to where I was before with aligning at about 20% of the time and effort. I think I'll have to drift align on top of it, which I didn't do this weekend. I'm glad I did the update, because it's quite a slick little method. Getting the right stars in the right parts of the sky I think will also be important to its accuracy.
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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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waassaabee
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Nick, I got just go home from work and got to look at the large image. WOW LOTS of stars! But I have to ask about the blue ones... That seems a bit of an artificial color, or is it my monitor?
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Gary
34N 120W
-My kingdom for blue squares!-
WO Megrez 90FD/TV 0.8x FR/FF
AT8RC
mini Borg 50/Q-Guide/PHD
CGEM
Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader mod - o.o
My Friend Flickr
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nickatnight
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 04/14/08
Posts: 1751
Loc: Santa Clarita, CA (LA Suburbs)
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Yes I think your right Gary, now I'm looking on a better monitor. I did it all on the laptop monitor, so blue was....blue. I'll probably give it another go from scratch on a better monitor. I've got a few images from Sat. night I want to play with first. 
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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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Nils_Lars
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Reged: 01/04/08
Posts: 3431
Loc: Santa Cruz Mountains , CA
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You do some really good work with that little scope , this one came out great.
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Erik
Orion Atlas Self Hypertuned (EQMOD)
Orion ED 80
Williams Optics VII reducer
Celestron 8" SCT
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
PHD guide
Canon 400D Hap Griffin Mod w/Baader filter
Astronomik clip-in LP filter and 12nm Ha
Stilleto CVF and Bahtinov mask
Tamron 75-300mm&28-80mm lenses
NexImage webcam
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