Deep Sky Images
M74, taken remotely through the Rent-A-Scope site. Tak Mewlon 300, with a FLI IMG 1024 Dream Machine, on a Paramount
10 X 30 sec L, 5 X 1 min RGB, all Binned 1X1
DeBloomed, Calibrated, Aligned, Combined, Color Combined LRGB and DDP in MaxIm DL
Contrast Adjusted, Cleaned up, and combined LLRGB with selective sharpening (unsharp mask) and blurring (Gaussian Blur) and cropping in Photoshop
M42, taken remotely through the Rent-A-Scope site. Tak Sky-90 with an SBIG ST-10, on a Paramount
10 X 15 sec L, 5 X 30 sec RGB, all Binned 1X1 10 x 30 sec H-Alpha
DeBloomed, Calibrated, Aligned, Combined, Color Combined LRGB and DDP in MaxIm DL
Contrast Adjusted, Cleaned up, and combined HaLRGB with selective sharpening (unsharp mask) and blurring (Gaussian Blur) and cropping in Photoshop
Double Cluster in Perseus, taken remotely through the Rent-A-Scope site. Tak Sky-90 with an SBIG ST-10, on a Paramount
10 X 30 sec L, 5 X 1 min RGB, all Binned 1X1
DeBloomed, Calibrated, Aligned, Combined, Color Combined LRGB and DDP in MaxIm DL
Contrast Adjusted, Cleaned up, and combined LLRGB with selective sharpening (unsharp mask) and blurring (Gaussian Blur) and cropping in Photoshop
M45, taken remotely through the Rent-A-Scope site. Tak Sky-90 with an SBIG ST-10, on a Paramount
10 X 30 sec L, 5 X 1 min RGB, all Binned 1X1
DeBloomed, Calibrated, Aligned, Combined, Color Combined LRGB and DDP in MaxIm DL
Contrast Adjusted, Cleaned up, and combined LLRGB with selective sharpening (unsharp mask) and blurring (Gaussian Blur) and cropping in Photoshop
M27, taken on July 11, 2005 at about 3:00AM UT through a C8
equipped with a 0.63FR. ST7, Astrodon LRGB Filters. 5 X 300 sec LRGB, RGB binned
2X2, L binned 1X1, unguided. Calibrated, combined and processed with Maxim DL.
Further processing was done with Adobe Photoshop
M57, taken on July 10, 2005 at about 3:00AM UT through a C14 equipped with a 0.63 FR. ST7, Astrodon LRGB Filters. 5X5 min L 1X1, 5X5 min RGB 2X2, calibrated, combined and processed using Maxim DL. Additional processing using Photoshop.
M51, taken on July 2-3, 2005 from Custer Observatory Southold, New York. SBIG ST7 - 4X10min Luminance unbinned and 3X10min RGB binned 2X2. C14 with Celestron 0.66 FR, Astrodon LRGB filters.
Calibrated, combined and processed in MaximDL. Further enhanced with Photoshop.
M13, TAKEN ON SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2005, ABOUT 2:00UT
SBIG ST7XLE, ABG
15x35 SEC LUM BINNED 1x1
15 x 35 SEC RED, BINNED 2x2
15 x 35 SEC GREEN, BINNED 2x2
15 x 35 SEC BLUE, BINNED 2x2
CALIBRATED, ALIGNED AND COMBINED, COLOR COMBINED IN MAXIM DL
DDP AND FULL SCREEN STRETCH WERE APPLIED TO THE TRICOLOR AND THE LUMINANCE IN MAXIMDL
LUMINANCE AND TRICOLOR WERE SAVED AS TIF IN MAXIM, AND OPENED IN PHOTOSHOP, AND COMBINED IN PHOTOSHOP
COLOR CORRECTED, AND THEN COLOR ADJUSTED TO GET A SLIGHT RED TINT.
LUM LAYER WAS SHARPENED USING UNSHARP MASK, AND TRICOLOR LAYER WAS BLURRED USING GAUSSIAN BLUR
IMAGE WAS FLATTENED AND SAVED AS BOTH 16 BIT TIFF AND 8 BIT JPEG
Albireo, taken with a SAC-8 with tricolor filters and a .66 focal reducer
on a C8
M27, taken through the Rent-A-Scope System "When else would I get to use a FLI Dream Machine, A Tak Mewlon mounted onto a Paramount. On one snowy day in New York in December 2004. This remotely captured image was pretty much my first attempt at tricolor filter imaging. I like this image of M27.