20141018 AR12192

20141018 AR12192

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Description:

AR 12192

Converted from greyscale to color.

North is up.

Imaging Site: My back-yard in San Diego, Ca.

Date: 18 Oct 2014

Scope and f/: Lunt LS100THa (Hydrogen-Alpha filtered) with BF1800 at f/17.5 (2.5x PowerMate is installed). The DSII (double stack filter) is installed.

Mount: Takahashi NJP.

Guiding: None.

Camera: Point Grey Grasshopper Express (GX-FW-60SM-C) monochrome video camera with a ICX694 sensor. Camera is operating in 2736x2192 16-bit mode with a ROI (region of interest) set to 864x862.

Camera temperature: 115.4 F (46.3 C)

Camera binning: None.

Number of sub-images and exposure: Stacked 31 images from the 501 frame captured video.

Filters: None.

Image Calibration: Automatic dark and flat processing in Astro IIDC.

Control, capture and processing with: Astro IIDC and Photoshop on a Mac.



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