Friday, January 22, 2010
IC 410, a cosmic fertilization
HST-palette
Natural color composition from Narrowband channels.
After many technical and weather problems I managed to get enough data for this image.
IC 410 is a beautiful object next to a "Flaming Star Nebula", IC 405, in Auriga.
Ambient temperature was about -21 celsius degrees and the transparency was good.
Seeing was really bad all night long, about 5 FWHM, so I shot H-alpha frames binned 2x2 to have a image scale of 1,5 arcseconds/pixel.
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Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
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Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, SXV-AO @ 8Hz
Image Scale, 1,5 arcseconds/pixel
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Exposures:
H-alpha 7x1200s Binned 2x2
O-III 4x600s, binned 3x3
S-II 3x600s, binned 3x3
A starless image of the IC 410. This looks now like a Rococo painting, very 3D!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Frustration
I mentioned about hardware problems in this post. Problems I ment are in a telescopes electric, not in my camera. I like to clear this up.
QHY9 will have soon a software update and it'll work without flaws in my extreme conditions too.
Bottom line.
QHY9 has been a bigest upgrade for my equipments ever!
We have now clear up here 65N and temperature is nice -30 celsius (-22 Farenheit).
Seeing looks good, transparency is not too good though.
Can't do any imaging since my equipments are not working due many hardware issues.
I have spend countles hours fixing things and now there is only couple of issues left.
I just have spend six hours to do some power measurements to pinpoint failure(s), three hours of them outside.
I feel really frustrated to be unable to use clear night(s)... what a shame.
NOTE
I made a small face lift to my Blog. There is now larger preview images and both columns are wider, hope you'll like!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Cloudynights forum October 2009 winner
My image of Bubble Nebula was a "Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - CCD Imaging & Processing's" winner.
This post is somehow late, since I noticed this just now.
Original image and technical details can be found HERE.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Three new Zoomout Movies
Tulip Nebula Zoomout.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
I have found out, that with this tech. I can combine a high resolution details to a wide field experience.
Seeing the "big picture" helps the orientation and shows the context.
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