Patrick Holland
2/26/2012 10:07:22 PM
A less than successful attempt to get the ever elusive Thor's Helmet nebula (NGC 2359). I underestimated this one for 4 hours of subs, this is a very dim nebula. This was shot on 2-19-2012. Equipment used was the Meade LX200 10" scope (for glorified mount). Riding atop the the Meade was the Explore Scientific 80mm APO which was used for this image. Camera used was the Atik 450C (5 megapixel), Orion deluxe OAG with the Orion Starshoot Auto Guider. 4 hours of 5 minute subs were used. The initial processing was done in Maxim DL, post processing was completed in Photoshop CS3. This image clearly needs more integration time.
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