You are not logged in. [Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Astrophotography and Sketching >> Astro Imaging/Sketching Contest Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 square_peg Postmaster Reged: 03/26/04 Posts: 23988 Loc: Maple Valley, WA DSO Photos Through April 15th       #382747 - 03/22/05 02:53 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   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! -------------------- Tom (Pegster) DSH-8 (GSO Dob) 15x70 Oberwerks SVP 100 f/6 achro WO 66 Petzval Sears Discoverer EQ 60/900 8x42 Regals History is Philosophy teaching by examples. Thucydides Post Extras:       jrcrilly Refractor wienie again Reged: 04/30/03 Posts: 22479 Loc: NE Ohio Re: DSO Photos Through April 15th [Re: square_peg]       #383203 - 03/22/05 11:07 PM Attachment (134 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I can't resist putting something up here at least once, so here goes: John Crilly 12/15/04 Double Cluster Canon 300D (unmodified), ISO 400, 3 X 30 seconds Orion ED80, prime focus at 600mm riding on a Meade LX200 The full-size shot from which this was cropped is available at: http://www.johnrcrilly.com/LX200-14/002%20Double%20Cluster.jpg -------------------- John C Urban Observatory Tele Vue Pronto A&M/Astreya 76mm F/6 APO TMB/LOMO 80mm F/7.5 APO Tak FSQ-106N F/5 APO Meade 152ED F/9 "APO" 152mm F/10 achromat Tak CN-212 8" F/12 classical Cass/ F/4 Newt Teeter 20" F/3.8 truss Newt w/ServoCat LXD750, EM-200, CI-700 ST-10XME Edited by jrcrilly (03/22/05 11:38 PM) Post Extras:       Undermidnight Carpal Tunnel Reged: 05/25/04 Posts: 2046 Loc: Hilliard, Ohio Re: DSO Photos Through April 15th [Re: square_peg]       #397143 - 04/06/05 01:16 AM Attachment (100 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Name: Jason Hissong The Horsehead Nebula Taken on 03/05/2004 at Hocking Hills State Part in Logan, OH Scope: Celestron Ultima 2000, Meade 3.3 reducer, Hutech IDAS LPR Filter Camera: SBIG ST7E cooled to -20 C. Exposure: 8x300s, 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, unsharp masked in Photoshop 5.0, noise smoothed out in Neat Image. Exported to JPG with IrfanView. -------------------- 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 Post Extras:       ELR2 professor emeritus Reged: 11/11/04 Posts: 594 Loc: Greenbrier Co. WV. Re: DSO Photos Through April 15th [Re: square_peg]       #397498 - 04/06/05 11:43 AM Attachment (110 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Ed Roach 04.03.05 M-57 and IC1296 OTA: Orion SVP8 Mount & Tripod: LXD-55 Head on SVP tripod Camera: Meade DSI Processing: Stacked in K3CCDTools, Levels & Curves In PScs. Exposure info: 44 x 21.2 seconds -------------------- 8" Orion Skyview Pro Orion ED80 & ST80 LXD-55 Head on SVP Tripod DSI Rebel(IR-Removed) Post Extras:       synner sage Reged: 01/13/04 Posts: 215 Loc: Harrow, UK Re: DSO Photos Through April 15th [Re: square_peg]       #401040 - 04/09/05 02:19 PM Attachment (104 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nick King April 8th 2005 Harrow, UK M13 LRGB 100:30:30:30 in 10 minute unbinned subs. Shot with the SXV-H9 through a Vixen VC200L @ f6.4 and a set of Astronomik Type II LRGB filters. Guided with the SXV guide camera through the TV76. Guided and imaged with AA3, processed in Photoshop CS. -------------------- http://www.synner.co.uk Post Extras:       synner sage Reged: 01/13/04 Posts: 215 Loc: Harrow, UK Re: DSO Photos Through April 15th [Re: square_peg]       #401049 - 04/09/05 02:27 PM Attachment (105 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nick King April 8th 2005 Harrow, UK M64 The Blackeye galaxy. 100 mins exposure in 10 min unbinned subs. Luminance filtered only - should have done the RGBs as well. Taken with an SXV-H9 through a Vixen VC200L @ f6.4 and guided with the SXV guide camera through a TV76. -------------------- http://www.synner.co.uk Post Extras:       Pages: 1 Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 0 registered and 3 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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