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Posts Made By: Jose Suro

May 9, 2005 10:44 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New Image: Riding the Bulge

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

A gorgeous night last here in West Central Florida! Clear, warm, no humidity and no wind with great seeing. Needless to say I took the allnighter and I'm going to bed now smile.

This is a full frame wide field image of M23 I took this morning with the STL-11000 and Borg 76ED. The name of the post comes from M23's position at the edge of the Milky Way's bulge where it meets the central dark lane.

There is a full size crop of the cluster on my website below the full frame image as well:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/m23-STL-ff.htm

Enjoy!

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

May 11, 2005 12:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New Image: M24 Star Cloud

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi all,

Shot this through a thick haze that developed after I started the sequence this morning so I lost some detail on the dimmer portions. Also lost visual on the Milky Way (rare when it's as clear as last night) - oh well. Geez - that's a lot of stars!

Used My STL-11000 and Borg 76ED.

Details:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/m24-STL-ff.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

May 13, 2005 12:36 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Barnard 92 and 93

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

This is a full size crop of Barnard's dark nebulae from the reprocessed M24 image.

Details:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/neb/b92-93.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

June 15, 2005 10:30 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New Image M6 Wide Field

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

I've been away for a while on my yearly family vacation to the Virgin Islands and last night was the first clear night since I got back. This image was taken with the STL11000M and Borg 76ED.

Details on my site as well as a full size crop of the cluster:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/m6w.htm

And.. Some OT shots from the BVI:

My brother's boat and our only mode of transport for the whole trip:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/terr/lady_luck.htm

Cow Wreck Bay in Aneagada, BVI:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/terr/cow_wreck.htm

And White Bay in Jost Van Dyke:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/terr/white_bay.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

June 26, 2005 03:27 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Conjunction tonight

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

Seems like ages since I posted here because of the separation of Solar System and Deep Sky but here's a shot of the conjuction as it looked tonight from St. Pete Beach, Fl. Nikon D70 and 18~70mm lens at 55mm.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

July 4, 2005 03:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New Image: The Swan's Lake

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

A wide field image of M17 and its playground smile Taken last night if HaRGB composite light.

Details on the website as usual:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/neb/m17w.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

October 31, 2005 05:10 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Back from imaging hiatus and first light

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

I took a hiatus from imaging during the summer because of the weather and I also was waiting for my new equipment to arrive which now has. I now have a new AP900 wto go with a new FSQ and my STL11K. This is the first light image from this setup. I will gather the color soon.

Details: M31, 20 300-second + 15 600-second Luminance images.

For a closer view and larger crop of the center please look here:

http://www.pbase.com/jsuro/image/51538503/original

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida


November 2, 2005 01:21 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M31 - added color

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

This is the M31 image from my first light post with color added. I had to forgo depth as compared to the Luminance only image because I don't have enough color data. I might add more tonight but in all honesty this might not be possible as I would need about 8 hours of data on each color filter to reach the depth of the luminance image.

Details: AP900 - FSQ 106 - STL11000m - LLRGB - 6:3:1.5:1.5:1.5 Hours

Look here for a larger cropped image:

http://www.pbase.com/jsuro/image/51684915/original


Best,

Jose

November 6, 2005 01:50 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M45 Q&D

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

My STL11K started giving me blooms on bright stars when using the FSQ at F5 so I adjusted it as per SBIG's instructions and I spent last night running some alignment and PEM chores before testing for blooms with M45. I only had three or so hours to shoot hence I consider this one a quick and dirty (Q&D) smile. Not only are the blooms gone, the stars are smaller and the halos less pronounced, but all this with minimum loss of gain. Still impressed with how deep I can go in such a short time at F5. There are a couple of mag 17 galaxies and asteroids in the image.

Image data is on my website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/M45.htm

It's all starting to click now smile.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

November 16, 2005 04:03 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Sunspot 822 - 11/16/2005

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

I shot Sunspot 822 this morning with my "soda straw" smile- Borg 76ED.

This first image is a a full frame crop at prime focus. The next post was with eyepiece projection.

Borg 76ED @ F6.6 - 1.04x FF - JMB Class A - Nikon D70 - 1 X 1/1000 seconds

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

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