The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
AR 1520--Again
I tried to be more exacting on the focus in this capture and it's a little more heavily processed. There's a definite increase in detail, but also in some sharpening artifacts. The big problem here in Indiana is seeing conditions. With high humidity and temperatures in the mid-90s F, the sun looks as if it is under turbulent water in the eyepiece. Focusing is more inspired guess work than anything else.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The Tulip Nebula—Hubble Palette
This image is just over 3 hours of integration on the Tulip Nebula. The image was stacked with star processing, initial histogram stretch, a...

-
I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
-
The ZEQ25 doing its stuff on a cold night--imaging the Orion Nebula with an 8 inch f/4 astrograph. Note the lovely Christmas rug :) As ...
-
Like the Ring Nebula, the Dumbbell nebula is a planetary nebula marking the end of a star's life as it puffs off its outer layers into s...
No comments:
Post a Comment