All Images
Courtesy of Brian Allan
M42/M43 - Orion B
Nebula Composite - 2010Mar20 TV 102, no reducer, VHT & IR filter, 6x600, 10x180, 10x60 w/QHY8, stacked in ImagesPlus,
postprocessing in CS4 |
NGC2237 - Rosette
Nebula & Cluster - 2010Mar14 TV 102, no reducers, IR & DGM VHT filters, 6x1200sec w/ QHY8 camera, stacked in ImagesPlus,
postprocessing in DeepSkyStacker & CS4 |
M20 - Triffid
Nebula - 2010Jul29 C8 Edge HD on EQ6Pro, TV 0.8x reducer, KWIQ Guider, 20x600 lights w/ IR & DGM VHT filters, 20x600 darks, captured
& preprocessed in ImagesPlus, postprocessing in ImagesPlus & Photoshop
CS4, ~33% of full scale, minimal cropping |
M16 - Eagle
Nebula - Canon 50D-QHY8-QHY9C Composite C8 Edge HD on pier mounted EQ6Pro, TV 0.8x reducer, KWIQ Guider, (15x900sec @ ISO 800, 6 darks)
w/ Canon 50D, DGM VHT filter, (13x600sec, 10 darks) w/ QHY8, no filters,
(16x600sec, 20 darks) w/ QHY9C, IR & Lumicon Deep Sky filter,
preprocessed in ImagesPlus, postprocessing in Photoshop CS4, original is ~50%
of full scale w/ cropping |