Image Acquisition Information                      

 

                               Telescope:   16" RCOS Ritchey-Chretien Telescope (ion milled at f/9) 

                               Camera:       SBIG STL-6303 M

                               Guiding:       Astrodon  MOAG AOG (SBIG 237 with .65 FLR)

                               Filter:          Astrodon H-alpha

                               Mount:        Software Bisque Paramount ME

                               Acquisition Programs:  The Sky,CCDAutopliot III, CCD Soft. 

                               Processing Programs: CCDStack, Maxim DL, Photoshop

                               Date:June 3-4, 2007                              

                               Time: 18 x 20 minutes ( 6 hours)                            

                               Processing:  CCD Stack and PhotoShop CS/2

 

This Image:  The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) is the result of a star some 40 times the size of our Sun ejecting material into space.  The bubble is 6 light years wide and is some 7000 light years form the Earth. 

Processing Comments:First Light Image at the Lost Valley Observatory,  Telescope not yet properly collimated and without a T-Point Model. Seeing was about 1.8 arc-sec.  Minimal processing, using CCD Stack abd PS for image data stretching and smoothing.

 

 

 

 

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