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Images => Deep Sky Images => Topic started by: chrisjbaileyuk on September 19, 2012, 10:29:08 am

Title: NGC281 - PacMan - 460OSC
Post by: chrisjbaileyuk on September 19, 2012, 10:29:08 am

3 clear nights out of 4 has to be something of a UK record. Was not expecting great things from this with an OSC camera but it framed well with the FLT110. Was pleasantly surprised.
Imaged: 18 Sept 2012
Scope: W/O FLT110 with TMB FF
Mount: Paramount MX
Camera: Atik460EXOSC
Guided: W/O ZS70/CCDSoft/Lodestar
Exposures: 15x480 sec
Processed: Pixinsight

Title: Re: NGC281 - PacMan - 460OSC
Post by: bwa on September 19, 2012, 07:07:38 pm

Quite nice!

bwa

Title: Re: NGC281 - PacMan - 460OSC
Post by: bwa on September 19, 2012, 07:09:12 pm

Quote from: chrisjbaileyuk on September 19, 2012, 10:29:08 am

Scope: W/O FLT110 with TMB FF

What is the reduction on the TMB FF or is it simply a 1x flattener?

bwa

Title: Re: NGC281 - PacMan - 460OSC
Post by: chrisjbaileyuk on September 20, 2012, 01:11:06 pm

Its a 1x flattener but I suspect it does reduce FL by a smidge. Works very well when the back spacing is set to +/- 1mm

Title: Re: NGC281 - PacMan - 460OSC
Post by: MikeM on September 20, 2012, 01:20:32 pm

Very nice image Chris!!

Title: Re: NGC281 - PacMan - 460OSC
Post by: Guy Walsh on September 29, 2012, 11:45:11 am

Super image, I see your exposure time is not far from my favourite time of 450sec. This seems to be the optimum signal noise ratio for my typical seeing conditions. I tried longer but I lose star colour and noise ramps up quite dramatically