Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D with a Baader UV/IR cut filter and a Baader Contrast Boosting filter. Stellarvue AT1010 at prime focus
Five 5 min exposures at ISO 400
The scope/camera was piggybacked via guidescope rings onto a C8.
Guiding was done through the C8, at f/6.3, with an SBIG ST7-USB/AO7 combination
The image was focused, composed and captured using dslrfocus
Red was removed from the RAW images with Canon ZoomBrowser EX
Calibration (dark and flat), Alignment, Combining and Digital Development was done in Images Plus
Color adjustments, contrast adjustments, selective sharpening (high pass) and selective blurring (Gaussian Blur) was done with Adobe Photoshop CS.
Finally the image was cropped and saved as a jpg for the web
Saturn and the Beehive Cluster
Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D with a Baader UV/IR cut filter and a Baader Contrast Boosting filter. Stellarvue AT1010 at prime focus
15 X 4 min exposures at ISO 400
The scope/camera was piggybacked via guidescope rings onto a C8.
Guiding was done through the C8, at f/6.3, with an SBIG ST7-USB/AO7 combination
The image was focused, composed and captured using dslrfocus
Calibration (dark and flat), Alignment, Combining and Digital Development was done in Images Plus
Color adjustments, contrast adjustments, etc. were done with Adobe Photoshop CS.
Finally the image was cropped and saved as a jpg for the web
