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Re: DSO Photos Through August 15th
      08/11/05 12:19 PM Attachment (94 downloads)

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

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* DSO Photos Through August 15th square_pegAdministrator 07/17/05 04:03 PM
. * Re: DSO Photos Through August 15th EricCCD   08/11/05 12:19 PM
. * Re: DSO Photos Through August 15th loosepiston   08/04/05 10:33 PM
. * Re: DSO Photos Through August 15th Charlie HeinModerator   08/06/05 09:15 PM
. * Dust lane in Cygnus, Milky way photo Anonymous   08/07/05 03:26 AM

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