This is a single 15-minute exposure of M16. I used my Debloomer to clean up blooms; there were quite a few because of the long exposure.
The seeing wasn't great, a little worse than average at the New Mexico Skies site. But we fixed a problem with voltage in the camera power supply (ST-10XME, the loaner I've been using this week for testing) - it was set a bit too high, resulting in slightly higher noise levels. With the voltage set correctly, this image is low enough in noise that I could apply a little sharpening to make up somewhat for the seeing conditions.
15-minute exposure, C14/ST-10XME on Paramount ME. Guided with the ST-10's internal guide chip using an aggressiveness setting of 2. Binned 2x2.
Ron Wodaski
http://www.newastro.com/remote
The seeing wasn't great, a little worse than average at the New Mexico Skies site. But we fixed a problem with voltage in the camera power supply (ST-10XME, the loaner I've been using this week for testing) - it was set a bit too high, resulting in slightly higher noise levels. With the voltage set correctly, this image is low enough in noise that I could apply a little sharpening to make up somewhat for the seeing conditions.
15-minute exposure, C14/ST-10XME on Paramount ME. Guided with the ST-10's internal guide chip using an aggressiveness setting of 2. Binned 2x2.
Ron Wodaski
http://www.newastro.com/remote
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Ron Wodaski
New Astronomy Press
http://www.newastro.com
