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Written by Admilson Pinto   
Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:00
IC 434

IC 434 – Horsehead Nebulae


Date: 30.11.2012
Location: Trier, Germany

Equipment:
Telescope: Deltagraph 300mm f/3.3
Mount: GM2000QCI
Guiding: ATIK16ICS on Orion Short Tube 80mm f/5
Camera: SXVF-H36
Filter: Baader Ha 7nm

Acquisition:
Software: MaximDL 5
FOV, Image scale: 126 x 84 arcmin (before cropping), 1.54 arcs/pixel
Sub-exposures: 2h 40min (16 x 10 min) light frames,
Calibration: darks, flats and bias

Processing:
CCDStack: Calibration, registering, Mean stacking
Images Plus 3.75: DDP
CS5: Levels and Curves adjustments

Comments:
Excellent quality even if the object was very near an almost full Moon.



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Last Updated on Sunday, 02 December 2012 17:17