| Dobsonian Astrophotography |
| NGC 6674 |
| Telescope: Obsession Mirror: 25" f/5 Galaxy Optics Drive: AZ/ALT, StellarCAT ServoCAT with DSC Argo Navis |
| Camera Equipment: ST-10XME Class 2 CCD, AO-7, Pyxis Field De-Rotator, TCF-S |
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Exposure: 5x10 minutes Processing: Maxim DL (remove hot/cold pixels,
dark subtract, remove blooms), CCDOPs (convert .fits to .tifs), RegiStar
1.0 (Register, Combine), Photoshop 5.0 (Level, Curves) |
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Location: My backyard in Ridgecrest, CA (Mojave Desert), 2600 ft. elevation, population 30,000 Date: 6/13//05 Comments: Ha! Worst galaxy image so far! Hardly worth posting. Better stick with bigger galaxies in the future. |