M1 - The Crab Nebula
Astro-Tech 65EDQ 65mm f/6.5 telescope, Starlight Xpress MX-716 CCD camera, Astronomik H-Alpha and OIII filters, Losmandy G11 mount. Guided using an Orion StarShoot autoguider attached to a 9x50 finderscope and PHD software.
21 x 10 minute integrations for H-Alpha, 16x10 minute integrations for OIII, 10 x 10 minute darks, 10 x 1/10th second bias frames.
Color image synthesized using the OIII data for both the blue and green channels and the clipping layer mask tutorial at the following link:
M1 - The Crab Nebula
Astro-Tech 65EDQ 65mm f/6.5 telescope, Starlight Xpress MX-716 CCD camera, Astronomik H-Alpha and OIII filters, Losmandy G11 mount. Guided using an Orion StarShoot autoguider attached to a 9x50 finderscope and PHD software.
21 x 10 minute integrations for H-Alpha, 16x10 minute integrations for OIII, 10 x 10 minute darks, 10 x 1/10th second bias frames.
Color image synthesized using the OIII data for both the blue and green channels and the clipping layer mask tutorial at the following link: