So I thought I would see if I liked doing astro pics again and broke out my old 1997 SBIG ST-5C. For those of you not familiar with this camera it is a 320x240 pixel TI255 based cooled CCD camera with a built in RGB colour filter wheel.
I used this with my TEC 180FL on an AP900GTP mount. I only polar aligned quickly with the polar scope through the axis so I limited myself to 15 second exposures. I took sky flats and had the camera apply the darks automatically. The pic is an LRGB with 72x15sec L (18 minutes total), and 36x15sec RGB (9 minutes each total).
It was processed by Maxim DL and Photoshop. I forgot how much fun imaging is. Perhaps a new camera is in store for me?
I was a bit hesitant to post my first attempt at deep sky imaging in 8 years as so many of the images here are just first rate, but what the heck?
Philip
I used this with my TEC 180FL on an AP900GTP mount. I only polar aligned quickly with the polar scope through the axis so I limited myself to 15 second exposures. I took sky flats and had the camera apply the darks automatically. The pic is an LRGB with 72x15sec L (18 minutes total), and 36x15sec RGB (9 minutes each total).
It was processed by Maxim DL and Photoshop. I forgot how much fun imaging is. Perhaps a new camera is in store for me?
I was a bit hesitant to post my first attempt at deep sky imaging in 8 years as so many of the images here are just first rate, but what the heck?
Philip
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