| Acquisition Date |
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May 12, 2005 |
| Camera |
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Canon EOS20D with 200mm/f2.8 (at f5.0) |
| Camera Settings |
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ISO 1600, Daylight White Balance, 3 minute exposures |
| Telescope |
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NA (Piggybacked on TEC-140) |
| Mount |
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Losmandy G11/Gemini |
| Adapter / Prime / Afocal / Other |
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NA (Camera lens) |
| Processing Package / Processing Applied |
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Images Plus 2.5 Beta 11 for focusing, acquisition, RAW conversion, flat (using telescope flat!??), dark, and bias compensation, alignment and stacking (10 images), background removal. Photoshop CS for image enhancement. Back to IP for binning, Neat Image for noise removal, and Paintshop Pro for gamma adjustement and small crop. |
| Web Site |
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Through The Eyepiece Site |
| NOTES |
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Processing on this was very tough -- never did get good results in IP. Images were taken with object at low elevation as well. Need more data but don't know if I'll get it. First try at Piggyback with 20D. |