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M27 in Ha
Click the image for a wide field 1.28 arcsec/pixel display.
Instrument
12.5" RCOS @ ~f/9 (2880 mm fl) 1.28 arcsec / pixel. Shown resampled to 1.71 arcsec/pixel.
Mount
Paramount ME
Camera
SBIG STL-11000 w/ internal filter wheel, AstroDon Filters
Acquisition Data
6/8/2008 and 6/14/2008 Chino Valley... with CCDAutoPilot3
Exposure
Ha 480 min. (16 x 30 min. bin 2x2)
Software
CCDSoft, CCDStack, Photoshop CS w/ the Fits Liberator plugin, Russell Croman's GradientXTerminator and Noel Carboni's actions.
CCDStack to register, normalize, data reject & combine.
PhotoShop for non-linear stretch and sharpening.
North is to the top.