Astrophotography by Keith B. Quattrocchi
M81
Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major
LRBG
Copyright 2013
Keith B Quattrocchi
Image Acquisition Information
Telescope: 16" RCOS Richey Chretien Telescope (ion milled at 6/9)
Camera: SBIG STL-11000
Guiding: SBIG 402
Filters: Astrodon Ha and Astrodon RBG Filters
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount ME
Acquisition Programs: The Sky,CCDAutopliot IV, CCD Soft.
Processing Programs: CCDStack, Maxim DL, Photoshop
Date: Data processed August 15, 2013. Data aquisition: June 3, 2013-June 30, 2013
Time: 12 x30 min ( 6 hours) each for each of L, R, G, B:
Total of 24 hours imaging time.
Processing: CCD Stack and PhotoShop CS/3
Image Infornmation: M81 is a spiral galaxy in the constelation Ursa Major.
Processing Infornmation This LRGB-Ha image was obtained using AstroDon LRGB filters. This image was a standard LRGB construct performed in CCDStack. Further stretching, high pass filtering and background smoothing was performed with Adobe Photoshop CS/4. All data stretching was by minimal stretching with gamma and DDP in CCD Stack and then further stretching with curves/levels in photoshop.
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