Image acquired from my driveway in suburban West Knoxville.
December 31, 2003
Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount with Nikon 180mm
f/2.8 ED lens @ f/4 with Mandel Wide Field Imaging Adapter.
CFW-8a and 4.5nm Custom Scientific Hydrogen
Alpha filter
SBIG 10XME CCD
180 minutes
( 300 seconds x 36 )
Notes: Selfguiding with integral guider
chip.
Acquisition and calibration in Maxim DL/CCD with
Sequencer II used for auto image acquisition.
Sigma Reject combines with Russ Croman's Sigma
Reject plugin.
Adobe Photoshop 8
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