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| Date: | July, 2008 |
| Location: | Elizabeth, CO. ~6500 ft., Mag 5 skies |
| Telescope: | 16" f/4.9 Newtonian, Pegasus Optics primary |
| Mount: | Mathis Instruments MI-500 |
| Exposure: | 48 mins luminance ST-10XME, 30 mins RGB ST-2000XCM |
| Correctors, filters, etc.: | 3" Keller/Wynne coma corrector on ST-10 and XCM. Ha filter used on each ST-10 sub, Custom Scientific luminance filter on each XCM sub. Normal self-guiding |
| Seeing: | ~2" |
| Comments: |
Six ST-10 subs, each 8 mins long, median combined in sets of three in Maxim. Medians summed in Maxim. 50 iterate PC deconvolution/DDP/sharpening in CCDStack on sum Three XCM subs, each 10 mins long, calibrated in CCDOps, color converted, median combined, medians summed in Maxim. DDP in Maxim used to create colorizing image from sum. Color/luminance images registered in Registar. Final HaRGB assembled in Corel's PhotoPaint 12 using LAB |
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