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[Erix]

Please join me in congratulating srosenfraz for winning the Feb 2017 site-wide Astrophotography/Sketching Contest with his terrific image of NGC 1333! That's two months in a row for the CCD Imaging & Processing.  Link to contest poll

 

CCD Imaging & Processing

 

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srosenfraz

NGC 1333 in Perseus

Captured November 2, 5, 24, and 29, 2016 from Pine Mountain Club, Ca.

 

Optics:  Nikon 600mm f/4 ED IF @ f/6
Camera:  QSI 690wsg-8
Mount:  Schaefer GEM
Guiding: QSI 690 OAG, SXV-AOQSIUSB Adaptive Optics, Lodestar Autoguider, PHD2 Guiding

Exposure:
Astrodon Gen 2 Series E LRGB: 100:11:10:19 x 600, bin 1x1 @ -10C
Total integration time: 11 2/3 hours

Typical SQM: 21.3
Ambient: 5C
50 darks, 40 flats, 200 bias
Software: Images Plus 6.0 Camera Control, Phd2 Guiding, Images Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS5, Focus Magic, Gradient Xterminator, Carboni Tools, HLVG, Registar 64.

[nicknacknock]

srosenfraz,

 

Congratulations on what was for sure a marathon multi session to capture all that data - not to mention all the processing time required - and come out with such a brilliant image!

[reixi]

Congrats. What a beautiful image!