Echo
Post Laureate
Reged: 09/29/03
Posts: 3320
Loc: So Cal
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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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Queen of GOTO
Life is short.... get a massage!
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EricCCD
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 04/14/04
Posts: 1496
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Name: Enrico Africa
Date of photo: Feb 3-5, 2005
Description: M81 and M82
Imaged with an SBIG ST-8XE and Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB filters on a CFW-8a filter wheel. Takahashi FS-102 @ f/8 wiht an IDAS LPS filter on a Takahashi EM200 mount.
L: 19x10 minutes binned 1x1
R: 12x5 minutes binned 2x2
G: 12x5 minutes binned 2x2
B: 12x5 minutes binned 2x2
Images acquired and calibrated with CCDSoft. Luminance combined using Ray Gralak's Sigma-Reject 10. RGB combine and pre=procesing with Maxim DL. Final LRGB combine and processing with Photoshop CS.
Eric
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lineman_16735
3.14159265
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 1626
Loc: At home
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lineman_16735
3.14159265
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 1626
Loc: At home
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Just tried Kodak Elitechrome 200 slide film for the first time. This is a 25 minute exposure of the Rosette Nebula autoguided with the DSI. Focus was a little soft and some coma. 10" LXD Schmidt Newtonian F/4.
Chris Provost
Edited by Echo (02/21/05 11:27 AM)
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lineman_16735
3.14159265
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 1626
Loc: At home
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Same setup but this time the California Nebula with some sky fog.
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PeterL
member
Reged: 03/02/04
Posts: 55
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Here is a shot of the Medusa Nebula, a large and faint planetary nebula in Gemini.
Peter Lipscomb
December 4th, 2004
Medusa Nebula
ST-7ME/CFW-8a with Astrodon Tru-Balance color filter set on my Takahashi FS 102 at f/6 with a focal reducer. Processed with median combine and dark frame subtraction in Maxim DL/CCD. Color combining and final processing in Photoshop CS.
Auto-guided Ha20/L20/R10/G10/B10 with sub-exposures of 60 seconds in each data set.
Edited by PeterL (02/27/05 04:14 PM)
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lineman_16735
3.14159265
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 1626
Loc: At home
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Here is my Rosette after some processing from a friend.
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Chris
AP 900
TSA 102
SBIG ST-2000XM
Astrodons
Pyxis
http://home.dejazzd.com/prowatt/
"quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur"
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Undermidnight
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 05/25/04
Posts: 2046
Loc: Hilliard, Ohio
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Name: Jason Hissong
M83 in Hydra
Taken on 02/05/2005 at Hocking Hills State Park, Logan, Ohio
Scope: Celestron Ultima 2000, Meade 3.3 reducer, Hutech IDAS LPR Filter
Camera: SBIG ST7E cooled to -20 C.
Exposure: 11x300s, 1x1 binning, autoguided with the ST7E
Processing Details:
Images aquired with CCDSoft V5
Dark and Flat calibrated each frame, adaptive add combined, soft DDP processing in Images Plus.
Debloomed, selective smoothed and unsharp masked in Photoshop 5.0.
Exported to JPG with IrfanView.
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WO Megrez 90 on EZTouch Mount
WO Zenithstar 66 on Microstar Mount
PST
8" F/4.2 Ball Scope, "Marilyn"
12.5" F/4.3 Ball Scope, "Ada"
11x70 Oberwerks
6" F/6 Polishing
Pans and Naglers
"They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz." -Donald Miller
http://www.undermidnight.com
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synner
sage
Reged: 01/13/04
Posts: 215
Loc: Harrow, UK
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M51 widefield
Nick King
Harrow, UK 05/02/27
11 x 10 minute exposures at ISO800, taken with the Hutech 300D through the VC200L at f6.4 using an Astronomik CLS filter. Guided with GuideDog, a TV76 and an SC3 ToUcam Pro.
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http://www.synner.co.uk
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Blueshark928
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 02/19/04
Posts: 2853
Loc: Crownsville, MD
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NGC2392 - The Eskimo Nebula
March 6, 2005
John Krawczyk
Crownsville, MD
Scope: Stellarvue SV-102 APO @ f/19.5 w/Televue 2.5 Powermate
Camera: ATIK-2HS
Exposures: LRGB 39:15:15:15 (3 min subs)
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: ST-4 w/SV-80/9d Guidescope
Filters: IDAS LPS & Astronomik LRGB Type 2 color filter set
Dark subtraction and separate image combines in Images Plus
Color channel registration and combine with Registar
Luminance layering and all other processing with PaintShop Pro 8.
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John
SV-102APO
SV-80/9d
Losmandy G11
HX-916
Edited by Blueshark928 (03/07/05 10:50 PM)
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Ralph McIntosh
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 11/26/03
Posts: 908
Loc: Hanau/Germany
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Ralph McIntosh
10.03.2005
M42 (Orion)
Location: Germany, Herchenhainerhöhe
Using a modified Canon 300D
8" F4 Newton
Losmandy GM-8 Mount
Stack of 7, 3.5, 1.5 and 0.5 min images
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http://home.arcor.de/ralph.mcintosh/
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