| Acquisition Date |
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Early October 2011, final H alpha images on the 17th |
| Camera |
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Canon 350d modified by Hap |
| Camera Settings |
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raw, 30 ten-minute RGB, 12 twenty minute in Ha, all at iso 1600 |
| Telescope |
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Explore Scientific 127/7.5 ED APO with carbon fiber tube |
| Mount |
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piggyback on LX 200 classic 12 inch, guided with modified finder and DSI pro I using PHD |
| Adapter / Prime / Afocal / Other |
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AT2FF field flattener |
| Processing Package / Processing Applied |
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acquired, calibrated, stacked, debayered, and color balanced in Nebulosity, Ha blended with RGB in photoshop. Additional processing in Photoshop |
| Web Site |
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chucks astro site |
| NOTES |
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UPDATE: it is the final opinion that the dust clouds in both his and my images are indeed noise clumping from the long Ha exposures, and not legitimate signal. confirmed by Rogelio today (12-05) sorry, c. |
