Posts Made By: Florent POIGET

Hi Gang,

Last Friday, I took my first CCD picture with my SBIG ST-10XME.

I was with a friend. We used his telescope, a 8" f/4 Perl-Vixen Newtonian telescope on his GP-DX Skysensor 2000PC mount.

Unfortunately, the Orion Nebula was at a low altitude in the sky and my picture is only in B & W. It was the first picture with the telescope of my friend and it was the first time we used his telescope for a CCD imaging session.

The 8" f/4 Perl-Vixen has a very short focal length and we can see coma on the edges of the picture. My friend has not the coma corrector unfortunately.

It is in "Picture of the Month" or by the Popup html page :

http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

I wait your impressions and your comments.

Friendship,

Florent


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CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers Le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais--------FRANCE


My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Hi Guys,

A Great coming back to me in the CCD imaging after 9 months.

I posted, on my web site, my new picture with color information.

Not the best, but the first picture with my new material.

3 nights of exposures and one week of work for the processing have
been necessary to have this picture.

I noted in my picture the stars close to the edges are more yellow
but I don't know why : H-Alpha layer ?? field curvature on this area
(I need to purchase the WO Field Flattener to avoid the elongated
stars with the ST-10XME chip, too big) ?? Gradient in a color layer ??

You can see my picture on my web site. You will find the picture and
all the information thanks to the link inside the Popup window of my
Homepage at this address :


http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao



Note :
The image has been a bit reduced for the web but It remains 1.44Mb to
download.

FriendShip,

Florent

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CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers Le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais--------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Hi Guys,


These last days, I worked a lot of time on my last NGC-6992.

This is the last version of this picture you can see on my web site.

Just click on the link inside the popup window displayed with my Homepage at :

http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao


Enjoy !!!!

Friendship,

Florent


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CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers Le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais--------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Hi Guys,

You can see, on my web site, my first CCD shots taken with my Meade 12" UHTC OTA + ST-10XME.

2 objects for these first shots :

- The NGC-891 Galaxy
- The M-33 Pinwheel Galaxy

The link for the images :


http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/immonth.html



On this same page, you can see too my NGC-6888 image taken with 14h25min of exposure.

Enjoy !!!!!

Best Regards,

Florent

CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy En Pithiverais------------------FRANCE

My USA web : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Hi Guys,

You can see my version of this nebula taken on 4 nights with a total exposure of 14h25min.

I used my Astronomik 13nm Ha filter, the SBIG RGB filters, my ST-10XME on my William Optics FLT-110 triplet APO ED refractor.

At this address : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/immonth.html

You could see too other pictures : NGC-891 and M-33.

Enjoy !!!!!

Best Regards,

Florent

CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais-----------------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Hi all,

If you are interested, you can see my new web pages about my material :

-My Losmandy HGM TITAN/Gemini Goto mount
-My selected Meade 12" UHTC SCT OTA
-My William Optics FLT-110 f/6.5 Triplet APO ED refractor.

The link : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/materialus.html

Regards,

Florent

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CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais-----------------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Losmandy HGM TITAN mount
Meade 12" UHTC SCT & William Optics FLT-110 APO OTAs
SBIG ST-10XME/CFW-8A/AO-7

Hi All,

This is my last picture of this object for this winter. The Lion is well here in our sky so the next images will be a few galaxies with my Meade 12" UHTC.

Unfortunately, the weather here is not great this year and my HorseHead will be again in B & W. I hope to have a better sky the next winter to take again this beautiful object with the color information.

Below, the information about the exposures taken on the 2 clear nights we have had, and the link for the image :



IC-434 : HORSEHEAD NEBULA


Material :
- Losmandy HGM TITAN / Gemini Goto mount
- William Optics FLT-110 f/6.5 (715mm) Triplet APO refractor
- SBIG ST-10XME at -33°C
- SBIG CFW-8A


Accessories :
- William Optics FLT-110 field flattener
- Astronomik 13nm H-Alpha filter


Conditions :
- clear sky
- wind : NO
- Full Moon, strong light


Exposures : (Total)

H-Alpha = 28 exp. x 10 min. (binning 1x1)


Exposure information :
MaxIm DL CCD 3.21
CCD Tracking exposure = 7 sec.
ST-10XME selfguiding mode with the TITAN mount


Processing :
5 darks combined with the Ray Gralak Sigma Beta 11 Soft.
12 flat field taken with PRISM 5 and combined with the Ray Gralak Sigma Beta 11 soft.
Blooming removed with the Ron Wodaski's Debloomer plug in.
Luminance H-Alpha images aligned with MaxIm DL CCD 3.21 .
Luminance H-Alpha images combined with the Russ
Croman RCConsol Sigma.
"Sharp" Medium filter with SBIG CCDOPS 5.31
"Remove Cool pixels" Medium filter with SBIG CCDOPS 5.31
Level with PhotoShop.



LINK for the IC-434 IMAGE :

http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/immonth.html



Enjoy !!!!


Best Regards,


Florent

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CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais-----------------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Losmandy HGM TITAN / Gemini Goto mount
Meade 12" UHTC SCT OTA
William Optics FLT-110 & Megrez 80 Triplet APO OTAs
SBIG ST-10XME/CFW-8A/AO-7

Hi all,

The last night was clear to me. I decided to take the M-66 galaxy in the Lion with the color information.

I have had a beautiful one hour of very good resolution and after that it was not as good as. I continued my images.

The elongated stars come from the Meade reducer and I don't want to fight me with it, my AP 0.67x CCD reducer will arrive very soon now.

Information & the image at this link :

http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/immonth.html

Enjoy !!!

Florent

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CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais-----------------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Losmandy HGM TITAN / Gemini Goto mount
Meade 12" UHTC SCT OTA
William Optics FLT-110 & Megrez 80 Triplet APO OTAs
SBIG ST-10XME/CFW-8A/AO-7

Hi all,

I reprocessed my M-66 galaxy. I made a new processing to improve the details in the galaxy, but with the same color that the first version.

You can see that at this link :

http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/immonth.html


Enjoy !!!!!

Florent

--------------
CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais-----------------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Losmandy HGM TITAN / Gemini Goto mount
Meade 12" UHTC SCT OTA
William Optics FLT-110 & Megrez 80 Triplet APO OTAs
SBIG ST-10XME/CFW-8A/AO-7

Hi Guys,

Well, and I've reprocessed 2 of my pictures : my B&W HorseHead nebula taken in February and my NGC-6888 (Crescent Nebula) taken in August.

I think these 2 reprocessed pictures are better with the details, colors (for NGC-6888), levels.

You will find that at :

http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao/immonth.html

I wait your comments.

Enjoy !!!!!!!!

Best Regards,

Florent

--------------
CCD ALTAZ & AO web site : http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdaltazao

Pithiviers le Vieil/Jouy-En-Pithiverais-----------------FRANCE

My USA web site : http://members.aol.com/JEPobs/poiget.htm

Losmandy HGM TITAN / Gemini Goto mount
Meade 12" UHTC SCT OTA
William Optics FLT-110 & Megrez 80 Triplet APO OTAs
SBIG ST-10XME/CFW-8A/AO-7