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Posts Made By: Vincent Bert

December 18, 2005 06:59 PM Forum: Deep Sky Observing

20" F4.5 Observations

Posted By Vincent Bert
Its been a while since I have posted here but since I got some of my sketches now on a webpage I thought I would post them. A couple of them have been posted before. I hope to add quite a bit more to the page this coming spring. Thanks for looking, Vince

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/sketches.html

December 31, 2005 04:35 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Ahhh! Crabs!!!!

Posted By Vincent Bert
Celestron, C9.25 at F6.7
AP 900 GTO
ST-2000XM
LRGB 120:60:60:60 unbinned
This is my second attempt at LRGB imaging and seeing was total crap especially for imaging at 1600mm. Thanks for looking, Vince

January 11, 2006 07:21 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn 1/10/06

Posted By Vincent Bert
My first Saturn of the new year. Seeing was fair to poor so the image is not very good, but better than I expected.

C9.25 @ F30
Toucam Pro

January 11, 2006 07:27 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M51 with C9.25

Posted By Vincent Bert
I'm still trying to get the C9.25 dialed in, so here's a luminanance only image. Collimation still needs some tweaking and seeing was not good, so I only got a 3.60 FWHM during focus.

C9.25 @ F6.7
ST-2000XM
9 X 10 min luminance

January 11, 2006 11:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

IR pass filter

Posted By Vincent Bert
Do any of you have a favorite IR pass filter for imaging the moon? I'm now using a C9.25 so a small bandpass may be an issue with the limited aperature, advice? TIA, Vince

January 12, 2006 02:42 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 891

Posted By Vincent Bert
NGC 891 - first light session with the C9.25

C9.25
ST-2000XM
AP900GTO
Astrodon filters
LRGB 120:60:60:60 unbinned

thanks for looking, Vince

January 15, 2006 04:24 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Saggitarius from Nepal

Posted By Vincent Bert
The darkest skies I have ever seen were at over 15,000 ft. in Nepal. M33 was a direct vision object naked eye, as was M15. Unfortunately to save weight, all I had with me was a point and shoot digicam. The camera must have shifted on the rock I set it on as there is faint double vision......

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/Nepal.html

Canon Powershot S70
15 sec, ISO 800


January 17, 2006 12:21 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

An electric M82

Posted By Vincent Bert
Well, the color is a bit wrong. Thats what I get for not taking enough color data and trying to push it up in PS. I think my color processing skills are getting worse with experience. shocked But I was happy with the detail that came out in the end. I think in the future I am going to quit screwing around and take 6 hours L and 3 hours each color with this scope/camera configuration. That should give me more than enough data to work with.

C9.25 @ F6.7
AP900GTO
ST-2000XM
120:30:30:30 LRGB
RGB binned 2X2

January 31, 2006 04:57 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M64

Posted By Vincent Bert
Best conditions yet with the C9.25. I was out in the SoCal desert for 6 nights and had only one decent night to take long FL images. The image is a cropped portion of the full-res frame. .95 arc sec/pixel FWHM 2.1 I was guiding using a faint star with 15 second guide exposures! I sure do love that mount.

C9.25 @ F6.7
ST-2000XM
Optec TCF-S Focuser
AP 900GTO
20 X 10 min

Thanks for looking, Vince
http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/

January 31, 2006 06:07 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Christmas Tree and Cone

Posted By Vincent Bert
I took this over three nights last week. Imaged right through the passing clouds for three nights and used the subs shot during periods of clear sky. I had to get an image somehow 8)

FS-102
ST-2000XM
AP 900GTO
RRGB 180min per channel unbinned.

thanks for looking, Vince
http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/

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