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Posts Made By: Jose Suro

September 20, 2004 01:25 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Double Cluster

Posted By Jose Suro
FINALLY! A clear night after months of cloudy nights and hurricanes. I spent most of the night calibrating my scope on its new pier but I did take a few minutes to snap this shot.

Borg 76ED with 1.04x flattener piggybacked on a NexStar 11 GPS - SBIG ST2000XM - 25:16:8:12 LRGB - Images Plus - PhotShop CS - image reduced 33%.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida


September 24, 2004 01:34 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

CCD Moon

Posted By Jose Suro
Tonight I'm waiting for the Moon to go down so I can run some tracking tests but while waiting I figured why not take a shot at it.

Borg 76ED piggybacked on a NS11 - SBIG ST2000XM - single .015 second exposure through red filter - 100% size cropped for display - Photoshop CS for Auto Contrast and Sharpen.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida



September 25, 2004 01:30 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

My First Galaxy - M33

Posted By Jose Suro
Last night I wanted to try a new program called CCD AutoPilot that automates everything related to imaging and reduces noise by dithering. It works very well. I tried it on M33 - my first attempt at a galaxy. High winds and the Moon being up and SO bright didn't help at all. The signal/noise ratio goes way down.

Borg 76ED piggybacked on a NS11 - ST2000XM - 35 LRGB images at 160:50:25:37 minutes - Maxim - Images Plus - PhotoShop CS - Neat Image - all automated with CCD AutoPilot.

Now I have to get ready for another hurricane .

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

October 1, 2004 09:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

M17 - The Swan

Posted By Jose Suro
A quickie luminance only shot from last night.

NexStar 11 GPS @ F6.5 - SBIG ST2000XM - 8 @ 5 minutes luminance - Maxim/DL - Images Plus - PhotoShop CS

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

October 4, 2004 04:50 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

M15 this morning

Posted By Jose Suro
A tricky globular to image and process because the of the very bright core.

NexStar 11 GPS - SBIG ST2000XM - L:30 R:15 G:9 B:12 - Maxim/DL, Images Plus, PhotoShop CS - Image reduced 33%

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

October 16, 2004 11:21 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Bubble Nebula - NGC7635

Posted By Jose Suro
Last night was my first time out with my new Astronomik H-alpha filter. Seeing was so-so because of a front going by but transparency was nice.

Celestron NexStar 11 GPS @ F7 - SBIG ST2000XM - Astronomik 15nm H-alpha filter - HaRGB 80:32:16:24 - MaxIm/DL, Images Plus, PhotoShop CS, Neat Image - Image reduced 33%

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida


October 17, 2004 02:15 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

M1 in H-alpha

Posted By Jose Suro
Another image from Friday night. Same setup and seeing conditions as in the Bubble post.

Celestron NexStar 11 GPS @ F7 - SBIG ST2000XM - Astronomik 15nm H-alpha filter - HaRGB 80:32:16:24 - MaxIm/DL, Images Plus, PhotoShop CS, Neat Image - Image reduced 33%


Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida




October 18, 2004 12:16 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn the old fashioned way

Posted By Jose Suro
I saw this post in the SBIG forum this morning and just had to cross post it here. It's a Saturn image taken by Adam Block, not with a webcam, but the old fashioned way with a standard CCD camera. There are even two moons visible.

http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/saturn.html


Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

October 25, 2004 11:58 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Cederblad 214 in H-alpha

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi all,

This is a work in progress. Clouds rolled in last night after midnight and stopped me short of taking more luminance and the RGBs. Seeing was pretty good - measured 1.65 arc-seconds FWHM during focusing. Will probably wait for a Moonless night on the RGBs.

Borg 76ED @ F6.6 piggybacked on NexStar 11 GPS - SBIG ST-2000XM - Astronomik 15nm H-alpha filter - 19 10-minute exposures (3.2 hours) - MaxIm/DL - Images Plus - PhotoShop CS - Neat Image.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

October 28, 2004 04:47 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Eclipse from Florida

Posted By Jose Suro
Just came inside and put together a quick one - haven't looked at all of them yet plus I also shot film which will take at least a day.

Borg 76ED Piggybacked on a NexStar 11 GPS - SBIG ST2000XM - RGB @ 16:8:12 - MaxIm/DL - PhotShop CS - Image is a full size crop.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, FLorida

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