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Posts Made By: Vincent Bert

May 21, 2006 06:24 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Dragon nebula....

Posted By Vincent Bert
Testing out a new Stellarvue scope. Not a whole lot of data in Ha, especially given the ST-2K camera, but it turned out acceptable. Vince

detail in the link

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/IC1396.html

May 26, 2006 07:50 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

IC 5068

Posted By Vincent Bert
Another Ha image. Interesting area, lots of stuff going on. Definately worthy of Ha in all FL's. Not sure this one really needs color. I'm out imaging now so had to process on my laptop so it probably looks a little whacked out on a good monitor.

details in link: http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/IC5068.html

Thanks for looking, Vince

June 2, 2006 03:44 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

latest images from New Mexico

Posted By Vincent Bert
Took a little imaging trip to Gila, NM for 5 nights. Outstanding dark and transparent skies, among the best I have experienced, well, maybe except for the north rim of Grand Canyon, but its hard to tell. NELM on one of the best nights I estimated at 7.5 Seeing was only average due to a front that approached and passed through, but at the scale I was imaging at it was a non-issue.

Amazingly enough we had 5 clear nights in a row. The wind was blowing hard on one night but it didnt matter much having an 80mm scope mounted on an AP 900GTO imaging at 4"/pixel. Of course most of these images could use some more tweaking but I was happy with the amount and quality of data that I captured. A couple of these shots I had already posted but this is the whole works. I'll just post the link instead of clog up the site with large files.

critiques and comments always appreciated, go ahead an rip em apart folks, thats how I learn, thanks for looking, Vince

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/new.html



June 3, 2006 04:35 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

IC 1396 - vdb 142

Posted By Vincent Bert
I keep trying to put together a respectable color image of the this object using the Ha as Luminance but no matter what method I use to process it, I dont like it. It looks too contrived trying to blend narrowband with wideband RGB. Thats just my opinion, I like pure Ha better. But since folks like color, here it is. Ha:[Ha+R]:G:B

as usual, image details are in the link

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/IC1396RGB.html

June 28, 2006 09:31 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

The Eye of Isengard....in Ha

Posted By Vincent Bert
Hi everyone. I've been away for a while so I have some catching up to do. Lots of fantastic images posted, great work, Warren, Tyler, Greg, Rick, Jim and others.

I got a bit of data last week and just started processing. Here's the first Ha shot. Kind of reminds me of the sinister eye from Tolkien lore....

SV80S @ F4.8
ST-2000XM 6nm Ha filter
10 X 10 min Ha

July 29, 2006 04:33 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Some summer Ha goodies

Posted By Vincent Bert
I imaged in terrible conditions with the SV80S for about a week on the west slope of the Sierras and only got a few images. Each night transparancy was a 1 out of 5 with intermittent bands of cirrus moving through on a regular basis, so every image was fairly noisy with bloated stars, and trying to get RGB data was futile. Image details are at the bottom of each page.....

thanks for looking, Vince

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/Ced214.html

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/DWB111.html

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/N7635.html

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/IC1848.html

August 12, 2006 09:07 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M27 Ha

Posted By Vincent Bert
Image captured with the SCT. Details are at the bottom of the page in the link.

http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/M27Ha.html

September 1, 2006 11:42 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 6992 Ha

Posted By Vincent Bert
Hi all, been away from the list for a while so have some catching up to do. Was able to get a few more Ha images this month. Here's the first.

FS-102 @ F5.9 (AP .67X reducer)
ST-2000XM
15 X 1200 sec 6 nm Ha filter.

September 1, 2006 11:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Pickering's Triangle - Ha

Posted By Vincent Bert
Same setup as the 6992 shot. 14 X 1200 sec Ha.

September 2, 2006 02:39 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 896 Ha

Posted By Vincent Bert
Yet another Ha image

FS-102 @ F5.9
ST-2000XM
17 X 1200 sec 6nm Ha

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