Tuesday, October 11, 2016
A little different view to the North America nebula, part II
Yesterday I published a new photo out of the North America Nebula. I had some extra exposures for it since at first I used a wrong image position. Images are overlapping so I was able to build a small two panel mosaic.
A detail from the North America nebula as a two panel mosaic
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An experimental starless version as a vertical composition
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Orientation
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Technical details
Processing work flow
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 33 iterations, added at 50% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics
Celestron Edge HD 1100 @ f10 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescope
Mount
10-micron 1000
Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x2 and SXV-AOL
Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alpha
Astrodon filter, 3nm O-III
Astrodon filter, 3nm S-II
Exposure times for both panels
H-alpha, 9x 1200s = 5h
O-III, 3 x 1200s binned 2x2 = 2h
S-II, 3 x 1200s binned 2x2 = 2h
Total 9h
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