Messier 45 with Mach2 - Final Version
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I posted a link to an early version of this weekend's target in the "Bad observing conditions!" thread. I think I finally have the final version.
This was taken on some friends' property out in the Anza-Borrego Desert in San Diego County. https://www.astrobin.com/1qyb67/D/ The newest generation of color cameras using the Sony BSI detectors sure do a good job IMHO. -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/ |
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I was wrong, that wasn't my "final" version... and it is just a coincidence that I made that declaration exactly a year ago. :-)
Now that I have the StarXTerminator in my toolbox I have been taking a second look at some of my old images. I redid my M45 from last year using StarXTerminator to pull out the stars so I could work on the nebula separately. Here is the result: https://www.astrobin.com/full/sfkirs/0/ Details - - Mount -> Mach2 running unguided with 180 second exposures - Scope -> FSQ-106 with the 645 reducer at f/3.6 - Camera -> ZWO ASI2600MC Pro color camera -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/ |
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Roland Christen
Now that looks pretty amazing.
Rolando
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From: Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Sent: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 6:18 pm Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Messier 45 with Mach2 - Final Version I was wrong, that wasn't my "final" version... and it is just a coincidence that I made that declaration exactly a year ago. :-)
Now that I have the StarXTerminator in my toolbox I have been taking a second look at some of my old images. I redid my M45 from last year using StarXTerminator to pull out the stars so I could work on the nebula separately. Here is the result: https://www.astrobin.com/full/sfkirs/0/ Details - - Mount -> Mach2 running unguided with 180 second exposures - Scope -> FSQ-106 with the 645 reducer at f/3.6 - Camera -> ZWO ASI2600MC Pro color camera -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/ -- Roland Christen Astro-Physics |
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Wow is that stunning, Dean! Karen AP
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Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 6:19 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Messier 45 with Mach2 - Final Version
I was wrong, that wasn't my "final" version... and it is just a coincidence that I made that declaration exactly a year ago. :-) -- Karen Christen Astro-Physics |
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Jeff B
Great googly woogly. Well done! On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 7:46 PM Karen Christen <karen@...> wrote:
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 19:18, Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> wrote: I was wrong, that wasn't my "final" version... and it is just a coincidence that I made that declaration exactly a year ago. :-) |
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Thanks for taking a look folks. Now I’ll have something to do for a while as I go through the old images to try the tool on. :-)
-- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/ |
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Howard Ritter
Dean, that’s a stunning capture of the interstellar dust clouds located between us and the Pleiades. And it’s a nice illustration of the optical principle by which light is preferentially scattered at shallow angles as it passes through a cloud of wavelength-scale particles, making the area around the source appear disproportionately bright to an observer on the other side. But the stars are suppressed so much that they’re not even recognizable as the Pleiades! Have you tried striking a middle ground between this and the unfiltered image? —howard On Dec 7, 2022, at 19:18, Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> wrote:
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Brian McFarland
Spectacular
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