| Acquisition Date |
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12/22,24/2005; 02/26/2006 |
| Camera |
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December - Unmodified Canon 300D
February - Modified Canon 300D |
| Camera Settings |
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December - 75 x 360 sec, ISO 800
February - 19 x 360 sec, ISO 800 |
| Telescope |
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Imaged with Orion ED80 @ f/7.5; Guided with Meade 10" 2120LX3 @ f/6.3 using Meade DSI color, MaxDSLR software |
| Mount |
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Losmandy G11 |
| Adapter / Prime / Afocal / Other |
: |
Prime Focus, IDAS LPR |
| Processing Package / Processing Applied |
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Acquired, converted, calibrated, aligned and processed with ImagesPlus 2.5; further processing in PSP8; gradient removal with PixInsight; noise reduction with Neat Image. |
| Web Site |
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www.ybsirius.com |
| NOTES |
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I shot the Rosette back at Christmas time from my backyard in Spring, TX (25m north of Houston) with decent results considering the light pollution, but couldn't get much of the red with the unmodified camera. I recently acquired a modified 300D and wanted to go back and add some new data, and this is the result. Could have saved a lot of time and obtained better results from a dark site, but the timing and the weather have not cooperated enough lately to allow that. Also, thank God for autoguiding! |
