Astral Imaging at Dogwood Ridge Observatory

Latitude: 37°48'51.0" N"
Longitude:78°23'41.0"W
Scottsville, Virginia 24590

 

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Image Information

Info to follow......This is a starter image consisting of only 6 hours. The final image will require at least 1-2 nights more data. At this point there is no luminance data.
 

 

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This image consists of 6 - 20 minute exposures of each red, green, and blue binned 1x1and processed in PixInsight. All images used totaled 6 hours. All data was acquired using MaxImDl/CCD version 5.15 using ACP.   Images were reduced and saved in MaxImDl version 5.  Alignment, average combining, along with histogram stretching, deconvolution, and HDRWavelets was done using Pix Insight. Photoshop CS 5 was used to create the JPG versions for web presentation.  The image data was collected on January 15, 2012 using ACP version 6.2.

Equipment and Location Information

Date January 15, 2012
Location Dogwood Ridge Observatory
Optics Optical Guidance Systems 12.5" RC
Mount Astro Physics AP1200GTO
Camera SBIG STL-11000M/FW10/AO-L
Filters Baader LRGB 50.8mm
Conditions Temperature middle  20s -  low Teens with moderate  seeing. Transparency good to moderate.

    
  Last Modified :01/23/09 03:40 AM