Telescope Reviews: Oct 09 Interm. DSO Challenge Poll

We are very pleased and proud to present the October 2009 entries in the Intermediate DSO Challenge. The poll will close on November 8th at Midnight EDT. The winner will be announced at our earliest opportunity after the poll has closed.

Here are Octoberr's entries!

Richard Scott
M15
Imaged through my C11 at f/5
Using my Original Orion SSDSI and MaxIm DL
Auto guided through my ED80 at f/15 to better match the SCT’s magnification
Using Meade’s DSI and PHD
Best 15 of 30 subs at 60s ea
Debayered and stacked in Nebulosity
Then a bit of Photoshop

Doubleglaze
Shot with a Pentax 75SDHF at 500mm focal length on a Vixen SXD mount, guided with Borg 50 and PhD.

15X exposures at 120sec each for 30 minutes total exposure time. 400ISO using an unmodified Canon 40D. 30X flats and 50X darks.

Captured, processed and cropped in Nebulosity with GIMP for resizing to post. I also cropped down to the cluster from a larger FOV, original size at the link in my signature to see the whole neighborhood.

EDIT: Resized to shrink file, flirted with the 100K limit.

SardonicMeow
Taken 21 October at Carrs Mill Park, Woodbine, Maryland
Optics: Meade 8-inch ACF OTA
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G
Camera: Hutech modified Canon 40D with clip-in IDAS light pollution suppression filter
Exposure: 10 x 240secs, f/10, ISO1600
Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker and processed with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

Galaxyhunter
October 19, 2009 18" f/4.5 on a ATM GEM
ST2000XM w/AO8 Internal autoguided
60 seconds x 30 for the Core, 180 seconds x 6 for main Image.
Image Acquisition, Calibration, Combined in Maxim
Levels, Curves, Layered, Noise Reduction, Astro Frame in PS CS2
Wavelet with Registax.

RoundStars
C8 at f/6.3 on Atlas CG-E
30 x 120S ISO 1600, darks, flats, Unmodded Canon 350D
Captured, calibrated, debayerized, aligned in Neb2
Guided PHD, Antares 80mm finderscope, Orion Autoguider
PSP v.6

antimorris
CPC800 at f/6.3 on alt-az
30 x 30sec, ISO 800, darks flats, unmodded Nikon D40
Stacked in Nebulosity, curves and levels in Photoshop CS2

Buhlig
11x90sec
10" newtonion, Canon 350D (modded)
PHD guide with SSAG/80APO
CGE mount
Captured and processed in Neb.
Imaged 23 October 2009

Scott Mitchell
Well, I didn't get the change to get any color for this one, but I'll throw my hat in the ring with the luminance only.

Scope: WO 66SD piggybacked on LX90
Camera: DSI Pro
Location: My light polluted backyard
Date: 09/27/09
Exposures: 48 minutes of 1 min, 2 min and 10 sec exposures (for the core)
Software: Envisage, DSS, Photoshop CS