Instrument:

Meade 178ED 7" Apochromatic Refractor Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f9 (prime focus)

Camera:

SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
(See product review in July, 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.)

Exposure:

11 x 5 minutes Luminance unbinned
3 x 5 minutes each R/G/B, all binned 3x3

Guiding:

Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.

Date:

10/13/04

Post Processing:

CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS