Exposure: |
Taken 5-3-05 at the Texas Star Party.
11 X 300 sec. ISO 800. |
Processing: |
Raw images converted to 16bit TIFs, dark subtracted and stacked (average) in
ImagesPlus.
Levels, curves and star sharpening in Photoshop.
Noise reduction in Noise Ninja. |
Equipment: |
Canon Digital Rebel (modified).
Orion ED80 + Celestron f/6.3 reducer.
The scope was mounted piggyback on a Meade 10" SCT and a Losmandy G-11 Gemini mount.
Guiding was through the SCT using an SBIG ST-4 autoguider. |
Notes: |
I reprocessed this shot using a couple of new processing techniques. See the previous version for comparison. |
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copyright Steven Tuma and Dean Williams - Deepsky
Astronomy Software |