Instrument:

Takahashi FSQ 106N (on loan courtesy of Steve Mazlin)

Focal Ratio:

f5

Camera:

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

Foreground snapshot taken with Nikon D50 DSLR camera, 28mm-50mm lens.

Exposure:

90 separate panels arranged into a mosaic
Exposure for each panel:
4 seconds Luminance binned 3x3
4 seconds each R/G/B, all binned 3x3

Guiding:

Meade 7" Refractor with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.

Date:

6/19/06

Post Processing:

CCDSoft, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS