To date all imagery with the Genesis CCD Camera has been accomplished with my Takahashi FS 78 apochromatic refractor mounted piggyback on a Meade 10" LX200. Images have been autoguided with the Cookbook 245 CCD at the SCT's prime focus as well as with the mount unguided. In most cases images have been cropped and resized for display.
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The
Great Orion Nebula, M42
acquisition and calibration accomplished with Maxim
DL 3.0
LRGB ( 30:12:14:24 ) 30 sec subexposures used for luminance
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The
Andromeda Galaxy, M31
Two image tiles were used in this mosaic. This was taken during my third night out with the Genesis! I was quite thrilled with results after getting PISCO worked out. Need to gather more frames to do this object justice Frames were calibrated with AIP4Win and then stacked with Maxim DL that also was used to equallize the backgrounds and white points before a user customized logarithmic histogram scaling was applied. Image was stitched together with the mosaic function in Maxim. Each tile is an average of ( 15 ) 120sec exposures unguided |
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The
Horse Head Nebula in Orion, IC434
autoguided with the CB245. this
is a color composite
LRGB ( 120: 15:20:30 ) The image may have a slight green tinge depending on the gamma setting of your monitor. This was due to a noisy green exposure as this was imaged from an area of the sky with considerable light pollution. acquisition, calibration and RGB
alignment with Maxim DL 3.0
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More Images acquired with the Genesis
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