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Written by Admilson Pinto   
Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:00
NGC 2264
 
NGC 2264 – The Cone Nebula

 

Date/time: 18.02.2009 20:04 to 18.02.2009 23:55
Az./Alt. positions: 152° / 47° to 232° / 38°
Ambient conditions: -10°C, transparency 5/5, seeing 4/5
Location: Trier, Germany

Equipment:
Telescope: TMB 92 SS f/5.5 with TSFlat, without dew heater
Mount: CGE, selfguided with ST-4000XCM
Camera: SBIG ST-4000XCM

Acquisition:
Software: CCDSoft V5
FOV, Image scale: 102.8 x 102.8 arcmin, 3.01 arcs/pixel
Sub-exposures: 3h (18 x 10min) light frames at –35°C, 45 x 10min dark frames
30 x 1s EL flats at –35°C, 50 bias at –35°C for flats calibration

Processing:
Calibration, stacking, DDP and hot pixel reductuion in Images Plus 3.75,
curves and levels adjustments in CS3, noise reduction with Carbonis Actions,
green cast elimination in Pixinsight LE 1.0.



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Last Updated on Thursday, 05 March 2009 11:57