Category:  Best Deep Sky Object - 2008 Submittal

In chronological order, the submittals have been:

 

 

By Kevin Sprouse, Submitted December 10, 2008

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This is M-42.  I use an Orion 80 ED.  Total exposure time was 2.5 hrs.  I use a QHY8 camera.  I used a 120 ED as a guide scope.  My mount is an Orion Atlas.  The date of this exposure was taken 10-26-08.
This image is M-78.  It was taken on 11-25-08.  It was taken through a 120-ED, guided through an 80-ED, and it was 30x10 min. exposures.  The camera used was a QHY8.

 

 

Marc Simpson, Submitted February 27, 2008

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M81 and M82

The image was taken from the light polluted side of my sky in the north east, so it took a lot of processing to achieve this result with little data. 

3x 180 second exposures   layered from 3x 60 second subs individually processed and layered 4x

Equipment: LXD, Canon 350D, Meade  SN 10" , Heq PRO 6, Shot Feb 9, 2008.

medium light pollution  

 

Marc Simpson, Submitted February 14, 2008

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M51

10 x 60 second exposures at  ISO 400, Canon 350D, Meade  SN 10" , Heq PRO 6, Shot Feb 9, 2008.

 

 

 

10/01/2017