Sergei Golyshev (AFK during workdays)
Anywhere Is: The Flame and the Horse
...featuring NGC2024 the Flame nebula, Barnard 33 the Horsehead nebula (looks smaller than the pony :), IC434 emission nebula and stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka of Orion's belt.
Acquisition time: pending.
Image orientation:
Straight, North is almost up.
Equipment:
Canon EF 70-200 f/4L backed with Astronomik CLS-CCD clip-in filter on Canon 60D riding Vixen Polarie.
Aperture (effective) 40 mm
Focal length 200 mm
Tv = 60 seconds
Av = f/5
ISO 3200
Exposures: 21 (plus 10 dark frames, plus master bias from the library plus 100 flat-field images)
Processing:
Images were converted into Adobe .DNG with Abode converter and stacked in DSS.
Final adjustment was made in Photoshop.
Image was cropped and scaled down... Well, slightly :)
Anywhere Is: The Flame and the Horse
...featuring NGC2024 the Flame nebula, Barnard 33 the Horsehead nebula (looks smaller than the pony :), IC434 emission nebula and stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka of Orion's belt.
Acquisition time: pending.
Image orientation:
Straight, North is almost up.
Equipment:
Canon EF 70-200 f/4L backed with Astronomik CLS-CCD clip-in filter on Canon 60D riding Vixen Polarie.
Aperture (effective) 40 mm
Focal length 200 mm
Tv = 60 seconds
Av = f/5
ISO 3200
Exposures: 21 (plus 10 dark frames, plus master bias from the library plus 100 flat-field images)
Processing:
Images were converted into Adobe .DNG with Abode converter and stacked in DSS.
Final adjustment was made in Photoshop.
Image was cropped and scaled down... Well, slightly :)