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: 22854 Loc: Maple Valley, WA DSO Photos Through August 15th       #519972 - 07/17/05 04:03 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:       loosepiston member Reged: 05/09/05 Posts: 53 Loc: Canada Re: DSO Photos Through August 15th [Re: square_peg]       #545882 - 08/04/05 10:33 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Benoit Guertin 29JUL2005 22:30 (GMT-5) M71 - Globular Cluster SkyWatcher 80ED F7.7 - EQ3 Vesta Pro SC1 mod webcam 20 x 30sec (Registax3 + PSP9) -------------------- Ben http://astrosurf.com/benoitg Post Extras:       Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Posts: 6185 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: DSO Photos Through August 15th [Re: loosepiston]       #548386 - 08/06/05 09:15 PM Attachment (98 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Messier 13 Charlie Hein, Weston, FL Camera: SAC 7b Scope: Orion Atlas 8EQ Details: Twenty-two 45 second frames captured on 7/11/2005 using K3CCDTools and stacked with RegiStax3. Post Processing : Levels adjustment and captioning in PhotoShop -------------------- Weston CSC: Post Extras:       wsu97rx journeyman Reged: 08/04/05 Posts: 10 Loc: Bonney Lake, WA Dust lane in Cygnus, Milky way photo [Re: Charlie Hein]       #548600 - 08/07/05 03:26 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Ryan Tiedeman Bonney Lake, WA Meade LX90 8"SCT w/UHTC Canon 300D at 18mm ISO800 14min total exposure (12x1min, 4x30sec) Post Extras:       EricCCD Pooh-Bah Reged: 04/14/04 Posts: 1441 Re: DSO Photos Through August 15th [Re: square_peg]       #554773 - 08/11/05 12:19 PM Attachment (90 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Name: Eric Africa Date of photo: July 30, 2005 Description (title) of the image: "Elephant Trunk" region in IC1396 Relevant photo information: Imaging details: Takahashi FS102 Astro-Physics 0.67 Telecompressor Takahashi EM200 mount Imaging camera: SBIG ST-8XE CFW-8a filter wheel with Custom Scientific 4.5 nm H-alpha filter Guide scope: Borg 76ED Guide Camera: SBIG ST-7E Robin Casady 14" Tandem Bar Exposures (H-alpha): 8 x 20 minutes Calibrated in CCDSoft Combined in MaximDL 2 iterations of Lucy-Richardson deconvolution in CCDSharp Levels and Curves in Photoshop CS Noise Ninja applied to a copy of the image The noise-reduced image applied to the original in Lighten mode at 70% opacity in Photoshop Haloes around bright stars repaired in Photoshop Post Extras:       Pages: 1 Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 0 registered and 4 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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