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Image Location and Date: SDAA dark site @ Tierra Del Sol, CA Object: IC1396 Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Canon 1100D (Rebel T3) Modded Lights: CLS Filter 5x1200sec @ ISO 1600, HA 12nm Filter 13x1200sec @ISO1600 Calibration: Darks, flats Guide scope: [...]

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I had gone out to my clubs dark site for several nights to work on a widefield mosaic of the Orion/Gemini area, once that set I had some free time to shot a few objects I’ve always wanted to go for. I noticed Omega Centauri was barely above the mountains to the south around 1 [...]

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This is always a fun target, good test to see how deep I can push the new camera. Pretty damn deep it looks like! You can easily pick out M 84, Ic 3303, Ngc 4387, Ngc 4388, Ngc 4402 , M 86, Ngc 4407, Ngc 4425, Ngc 4435, Ngc 4438, Ngc 4461, Ngc 4473, Ngc [...]

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This sure was challenging! Two out of the three nights I arrived late and couldn’t start work until Orion well into the light pollution of north San Diego county. Taking stuff out of the car, polar alignment, mount alignment, focus and framing really eat up my dark sky time but I don’t have much of [...]

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Image Location and Date: OCA dark sky site in Anza, CA on January 17th, 2012 Object: Great Orion Nebula Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 6 x 600sec, 15 x 300sec, 20 x 60sec @ ISO 800 (155 [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA dark sky site at Tierra Del Sol on November 28th, 2011 Object: M33 Galaxy Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 15 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (2.5 hours) Calibration: Darks, Flats Guide scope: [...]

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This one was very very tough. I had some very bad gradients from light pollution, upper atmosphere clouds and a red LED that somehow leaked light into the scope causing some nasty images in the core frame. I’m not sure if I’m happy with the colors or not so I may come back to this [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA dark sky site at Tierra Del Sol on October 29th, 2011 Object: IC405 Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150mm Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 30 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (5 Hours) Calibration: [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA site @ Tierra Del Sol on September 23rd and 24th, 2011 Object: NGC7293 Helix Nebula Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 9 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (1 Hour 30 Minutes) Calibration: None! [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA site @ Tierra Del Sol on September 23rd and 24th, 2011 Object: M45, The Pleiades Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 23 x 600sec @ ISO 800 (3 Hour 50 Minutes) Calibration: None! [...]

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Image Location and Date: Joshua Tree National Park, Indian Cove Campground September 10th 2010 Object: Flame and Horsehead Nebula in Orion Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 12 x 300sec ISO 3200 (2 hours) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares [...]

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Sitting at the airport, flight to SFO is delayed, processing some leftover images from last weekend. Here is the constellation Orion with some clouds in front of it. Here is a the center of Cygnus with a 70mm lens I found at the swap meet for $15 Still more to come from this session. *

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Image Location and Date: Joshua Tree National Park, Indian Cove Campground September 10th 2010 Object: M33 Galaxy in Triangulum Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 60 x 120sec ISO 3200 (3 hours) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder [...]

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I want to reprocess this once I get my big monitor set up but here it is for now: 60min exposure, 50mm 1.8 ISO 800 Nikon D60 on CG5 Mount *

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Southern Milky Way Cygnus Area of the Milky Way, North American Nebula is in the center. Cassiopeia + Perseus… double cluster in the center. *

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I can’t remember if I’ve posted pictures of my setup but here it is. I’m testing everything out tonight before I spend a weekend in Joshua Tree, it’s been awhile since I’ve gotten out to the desert and I didn’t want to forget anything. *

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Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol on May 16th, 2010 Object: M8 Lagoon Nebula Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 28 x 180 sec ISO 3200 (1 hour 24 minutes) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with [...]

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Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol on May 15th, 2010 Object: Virgo Galaxy Cluster Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging FL: 750mm Imaging focal ratio: f5 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 30 x 180 sec ISO 3200 (1.5 Hours) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with Orion StarShoot [...]

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