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Heres a couple more images. First one is M20 -Trifid Nebula the other one is M27 - Dumbell Nebula. I didn't get enough good data on the last one so I couldn't process in more detail. The first for some reason I was able to do a pretty good job on considering its only 3.5 minutes of data.

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/M20Webversion.jpg

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/M27WebVersion.jpg

 

Evan

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Here's a pic of my scope, mount, and its attached computer. Add in a computer, camera, and about a million more wires and you get what I have to work around in the dark. That jump starter is nice, when I'm out away from 110volt power I can run a laptop, camera, and telescope drive system for 8-10 hours.

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/IMG_2213.jpg

 

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Man thats really neat, thats something ive never seen anyone do at there house. Companies and stuff like that yeah, but not a person. What kind of pictures does that thing get of the moon / other planets?

 

Lots of people have much better pictures then mine, but at least mine are getting to the point were I'm not embarrassed to post them on astrophotography forums.

 

As for the moon. I took a pic of it and its in this thread from a week or so ago.

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53391

 

For shooting the planets I'd need a totally different process and a cheap web cam. I may try it once I get bored enough with deep space objects.

 

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I am calling photoshopped on these :) just kidding those are nice

 

You bet there photoshopped. I spent about 4 hours on that image in PS trying to bring it out of the dark. For anyone who knows about pictures or photoshop. The histogram for the original stack of images is just a tiny sliver on the far left and you use levels and curves over and over to keep moving it farther to the right and stretching it out across the spectrum. Then after a few repeats you have to apply noise reduction filters then keep using levels/curves some more.

Then once your all done you can adjust down the background to as dark as possible and adjust the white level until the color is right. Very annoying yet rewarding.

 

Evan

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