Patrick Holland
7/2/2010 11:32:34 PM
Here's a better focused moon...from 7/2/10
Meade 10" LX200ACF w/Meade .63 Focal Reducer
Orion StarShoot Pro V2
F5.98, 1519 Focal Length
1 - .002 Second exposure
Processed in Photoshop CS4
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Patrick Holland
7/1/2010 1:02:12 AM
Hey, it's the moon again. The last time I took a picture of the moon, the dang earth got in the way. here's another with a bit of contrasty enhancement. Taken 7-1-10 (at approximately 12:45AM. Meade 10" LX200ACF w/ Meade .63 focal reducer. Orion StarShoot Pro V2, single .001 second exposure.
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Patrick Holland
6/26/2010 6:29:48 AM
Here's a hyperstar image of the moon during the lunar eclipse. I didn't intend to image the event at all much less with hyperstar. I was imaging M51 with the orion skyglow filter when the event began. I was swept up in the moment and trained the 14" LX200 on the moon and snapped this image. It is a .001 second image with the Orion StarShoot Pro V2 with hyperstar. The Orion Skyglow imaging filter is in the imaging train as well. The moon was just about kissing the SW treeline when the image was taken at approximately 5:45AM on 6-26-10
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Patrick Holland
6/23/2010 10:39:50 PM
I know I promised before not to post the same image twice...well, I am bending my own rule to post an updated image, the Cat's Paw Nebula. This is the same image as I posted before but has been re-processed in MaxIm DL Essentials and post processed in Photoshop CS4 - the first time I've used photoshop to process an Astro Image. I included 7 more frames from the original set for a total of 55 light frames-40 seconds each and reduced the flat frames to 10.
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Patrick Holland
6/22/2010 8:40:26 PM
Here's my Hyperstar Image of the Lagoon, M8. I now see why others get such a deep crimson red when they image this. My 40 second hyperstar subs are the equivalent of 14 minute subs or so at F10, so you capture much more data, in this case Ha I believe. Anyway, this was also imaged on 6-20-10 right after I imaged the Cat's Paw. Meade 14" LX200GPS w/hyperstar, Orion Starshoot Pro V2, 50-40 second subs, 50 dark frames and 50 flats.
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Patrick Holland
6/22/2010 3:12:16 PM
For a few months now, I've been cursing my Orion Starshoot Pro V2 because I couldn't seem to get rid of all the artifacts and hot pixels out of my images I took with it. It turns out that it was MY problem all along with not understanding how to process images in the Orion stock program called Maxim DL Essentials. So I actually read the manual last night...NOW I can process in Maxim DL Essentials - funny how that works. There has been a lot of "M" in the image pages lately. Thought I would shake it up a bit with a "NGC". Here's NGC6334 AKA the Cat's Paw Nebula. Imaged with my Meade 14" LX200GPS w/hyperstar (F2, FL/700mm) on 6-20-10 (2:50 AM). Attached to the hyperstar was the Orion Starshoot Pro V2. 48-40 second light subs, 50 dark subs and 50 flat frames. Processed in Maxim DL Essentials. I believe I have collimated the hyperstar enough to start getting some good images out of it.
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Patrick Holland
6/21/2010 10:08:54 PM
New an improved M27 from 6-19-10. This one turned out much better. 75 subs were taken and 55 were used to compile the image. Meade 10" LX200ACF w/Meade .63 Focal Reducer. F6.2 and FL/1550. 55-30 Second Subs, 25 Darks, 10 Flats. Canon XSi (Hap Modded), processed in Images Plus.
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Patrick Holland
6/21/2010 10:47:24 AM
Finally, I've imaged and processed a half-way decent M13. Imaged on 6-17-10 with the 10" Meade LX200ACF w/ Meade .63 Focal Reducer. F6.2 FL/1550. Canon XSi (Hap Modded). 31-40 second light subs, 15 Dark Frames and 10 Flat Frames. Processed in Images Plus 3.8
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Patrick Holland
6/21/2010 12:39:45 AM
M16, The Eagle Nebula in Scorpius imaged on 6-20-10 at 3:00 AM. Meade 10" LX200ACF w/Meade .63 Focal Reducer at 100mm. F6.2 FL/1550. Modded Canon XSi (Hap Modded). 60 Light subs at 40 seconds each, 25 Darks subs, 25 flat frames. Cropped by 10% to help eliminate field rotation. Processed in Images Plus.
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Patrick Holland
6/20/2010 11:01:54 PM
M57 taken 6-19-10. Meade 10" LX200ACF w/.63 focal reducer spaced at 100mm. F6.2 FL/1550. 20 Light subs at 35 seconds each. 10 dark frames, 10 flat frames. (Taken during a half moon)
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