Auriga Messier Clusters M36,37 & 38

Hi All,

Auriga is now up to where i can image it at a decent hour so i went and did all three clusters over two nights. All three were captured and processed exactly the same.

Here is the shoot data

Shoot data:

Scope: Stellarvue SV-102 apo @ f/7.8
Camera: Nikon D70
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: SBIG ST-4 w/SV-80/9d guidescope
Exposures: 12x120sec @ ISO800
Filter: None

The Nikon D70's in-camera noise reduction was turn on for all of the captures. No flats were taken. All registration was done with Registar 1.0. and MedianMean combined. I did digital development, log stretch and Richardson Lucy deconvolution in Images Plus 2.0. I did SGBNR and SCNR in PixInsight LE. I also used Paint Shop Pro for final black/white point adjustments and light unsharp masking.

Here are links to 1/2 size versions of all:

http://ardenastrophotography.com/M36_1500X1000.jpg

http://ardenastrophotography.com/M37_1500X1000_790k.jpg

http://ardenastrophotography.com/M38_1500X1000_550K.jpg

Thanks for looking.

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m37

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m38

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