Deep Space Objects
M101 The Pinwheel galaxy and other small galaxies
- Date
- April 10th and 16th 2021
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- FLI ML-16200 mono at -15°C
- Telescope
- Stellarvue SVQ100 F/5.8 APO quadruplet
- Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Filters
- Chroma LoGlow and RGB filters
- Guiding
- TheSkyX, Stellarvue SV80 with ZWO ASI 290MM Mini
- NB Frames
- L: 8x10min bin 1x1, R: 8x5min bin 2x2, G: 8x5min bin 2x2, B: 8x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M106 spiral galaxy and other small galaxies
- Date
- March 6th 2021
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- FLI ML-16200 mono at -15°C
- Telescope
- Stellarvue SVQ100 F/5.8 APO quadruplet
- Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Filters
- Chroma LoGlow and RGB filters
- Guiding
- TheSkyX, Stellarvue SV80 with ZWO ASI 290MM Mini
- NB Frames
- L: 11x10min bin 1x1, R: 11x5min bin 2x2, G: 10x5min bin 2x2, B: 10x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M1 - The Crab Nebula
- Date
- December 20th 2020
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- FLI ML-16200 mono at -15°C
- Telescope
- Stellarvue SVQ100 F/5.8 APO quadruplet
- Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Filters
- Chroma LoGlow and RGB filters
- Guiding
- TheSkyX, Stellarvue SV80 with ZWO ASI 290MM Mini
- NB Frames
- L: 9x10min bin 1x1, R: 9x5min bin 2x2, G: 8x5min bin 2x2, B: 8x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M45 - The Pleiades
- Date
- December 8th to 11th 2020
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- FLI ML-16200 mono at -15°C
- Telescope
- Stellarvue SVQ100 F/5.8 APO quadruplet
- Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Filters
- Chroma LoGlow and RGB filters
- Guiding
- TheSkyX, Stellarvue SV80 with ZWO ASI 290MM Mini
- NB Frames
- L: 22x10min bin 1x1, R: 19x5min bin 2x2, G: 19x5min bin 2x2, B: 19x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M42 / M43 - The Orion nebula and the Running Man nebula
- Date
- November 23rd to 26th 2020
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- FLI ML-16200 mono at -15°C
- Telescope
- Stellarvue SVQ100 F/5.8 APO quadruplet
- Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Filters
- Chroma LoGlow and RGB filters
- Guiding
- TheSkyX, Stellarvue SV80 with ZWO ASI 290MM Mini
- NB Frames
- L: 6x10min + 6x60 seconds + 10x30 seconds at bin 1x1, R, G and B : 5x5min + 6x30 seconds + 10x15 seconds at bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy with M32 and M110
- Date
- November 23rd to 25th 2020
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- FLI ML-16200 mono at -15°C
- Telescope
- Stellarvue SVQ100 F/5.8 APO quadruplet
- Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Filters
- Chroma LoGlow and RGB filters
- Guiding
- TheSkyX, Stellarvue SV80 with ZWO ASI 290MM Mini
- NB Frames
- L: 16x10min bin 1x1, R: 15x5min bin 2x2, G: 15x5min bin 2x2, B: 15x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula
- Date
- September 23rd 2017
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- Atik 16200 mono at -10°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Filters
- Astrodon Gen II LRGB
- Corrector
- TS Optics Universal APO Flattener TSFLAT2
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV80 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- L: 10x10min bin 1x1, R: 4x5min bin 2x2, G: 4x5min bin 2x2, B: 4x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M15
- Date
- September 24th 2016
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- CFF RC250
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Astrodon Gen II LRGB
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- L: 7x10min bin 1x1, R: 6x5min bin 2x2, G: 6x5min bin 2x2, B: 6x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M5
- Date
- June 25th 2016
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- CFF RC250
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Astrodon Gen II LRGB
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- L: 4x5min bin 1x1, R: 4x2min bin 3x3, G: 2x2min bin 3x3, B: 3x2min bin 3x3
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M3
- Date
- April 17th 2016
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- CFF RC250
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Astrodon Gen II LRGB
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- L: 1x5min bin 1x1, R: 1x2min bin 3x3, G: 1x2min bin 3x3, B: 1x2min bin 3x3
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
IC434 The horsehead Nebula and NGC 2024 the Flame nebula
- Date
- December 26th 2014
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter, Astrodon Gen II LRGB, Astrodon Ha 5nm
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- L: 10x10min bin 1x1, Ha: 5x10min bin 1x1, R: 8x5min bin 2x2, G: 8x5min bin 2x2, B: 8x5min bin 2x2
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight, Ha combined with Red, then LRGB combining
M33 The Triangulum Galaxy
- Date
- October 18th 2014
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 7 x 10 minutes
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M2 globular cluster
- Date
- October 18th 2014
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 6 x 5 minutes
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M52 and the Bubble Nebula
- Date
- October 4th 2014
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 6 x 10 minutes
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M81
- Date
- March 15th 2014
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -10°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD2, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 3 x 10 minutes
- Capture
- TheSkyX Professional Edition
- Processing
- PixInsight
M81, M82 and SN2014J
,
- Date
- February 1st 2014
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -15°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 1 x 5 minutes
- Capture
- Equinox Image
- Processing
- Equinox Image and PixInsight
- Note
- The second image is the same but with the new super nova SN2014J in M82. The imaging conditions were very bad as cloud were comming in and this was taken through some clouds.
M74
- Date
- November 23rd 2013
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -15°C
- Telescope
- Astro-Tech AT12RC
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Guiding
- PHD, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 11 x 10 minutes
- Capture
- Equinox Image
- Processing
- PixInsight and Photoshop CS4
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy with M32 and M110
- Date
- September 28th 2013
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -15°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 12 x 5 minutes
- Capture
- Equinox Image
- Processing
- PixInsight and Photoshop CS4
M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula
- Date
- September 28th 2013
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M at -15°C
- Telescope
- Meade 102ED Triplet APO
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Hotech 2" Field Flattener
- Guiding
- PHD, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 12 x 5 minutes
- Capture
- Equinox Image
- Processing
- Equinox Image and PixInsight
M3
- Date
- June 29th 2013
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M
- Telescope
- Meade SN8
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- Filters
- Lumicon Deep-Sky filter
- Corrector
- Baader MPCC Mark III
- Guiding
- PHD, Stellarvue SV50 with DMK 21AF04.AS
- NB Frames
- 1 x 5 minutes
- Capture
- Equinox Image
- Processing
- PixInsight and Photoshop CS4
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy (and M32)
- Date
- October 6th 2012
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M
- Telescope
- Meade SN8
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- NB Frames
- 10 x 1 minutes
- Capture
- Equinox Image
- Processing
- PixInsight and Photoshop CS4
M42 / M43 - The Orion nebula
- Date
- December 30th 2012
- Location
- Kensington, CA
- Camera
- SBIG STF-8300M
- Filter
- Lumicon Deep Sky Filter (2")
- Telescope
- Meade SN8
- Mount
- AP 900GTO
- NB Frames
- 8 x 1mn for main nebula, 10 x 15 seconds + 10 x 2 seconds for the core
- Capture
- Equinox Image
- Processing
- PixInsight and Photoshop CS4
M42 / M43 - The Orion nebula
- Date
- December 14th 2003
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Camera
- Canon D60
- Telescope
- Meade SN8
- Mount
- LXD-55
- NB Frames
- 6 x 1 minutes
- Capture
- On camera with TC-80N3
- Processing
- Photoshop CS2
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