Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Meade DSI Color/ 600 second (40 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

My 2014 Imaging Messier Marathon was a challenge due to unwanted (and unusual for late Spring in Arizona) cloud cover. A cloudbank which thickened on the western horizon at Sunset, blocked off at least the first 10 Messier Objects, to the dismay of the assembled Amateur Astronomers. We scrambled to observe those Objects most likely to next be covered by the spreading clouds.

By 10PM, I'd captured Image data for 20 Messier Objects.

These are my Results: 58 of 110 Objects Imaged

Exposures:

3x 60sec @ 1600ISO

Equipment Used:

Canon 550D (IR-Modded)

Orion 8in Astrograph Newtonian Telescope

CGEM Mount with SSAG Guider

BackyardEOS Imaging Software

DeepSkyStacker and ACDsee 6 Pro

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 32m 45s (64 x 15s) RGB + (67 x 15s)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: None

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Just over 8 min exposure. The Sagittarius arm. Looking toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 20m (40 x 15s) RGB + (40 x 15s)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: None

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 11m (22 x 30s) LRGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 1hr (15 x 4m) ISO 800 RGB

Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging Filter

Flattener/Correction: Anteres .63x Focal Reducer

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 256×2500mm

Telescope: Meade LX200-GPS 10" ACF

Guided: Yes - PHD Guiding

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This is a reprocess of this image using better adjusted flats.

Starless image of the Pleiades showing the dust of the reflection nebulae and the linear magnetic field lines as the magnetic fields of the massive stars line up ionised dust.

Meade DSI Color/ 240 second (10 15sec exposures) RGB exposure * 5/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Composited and leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 6m 30s RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: Autoguided

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Globular star cluster M22, taken from Malibu, California on August 6, 2005. Cropped from original single, unguided image taken with Canon 10D behind an Orion Short-Tube 80mm telescope (400 mm focal length), mounted on top of a Meade LX200 GPS 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope in alt-az configuration.

Picture saved with settings embedded.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 45m (45 x 30s) RGB + (45 x 30s)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: None

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

As I didn't want to waste away a rare clear night I found a Messier object to photograph and test the limiting magnitude of my 40D under Boston night skies. I still can't seem to push it past ~ mag. +12.5. (480 frames x 3.2" exposure at 190 mm, F/5.0, ISO 1600)

Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm (Semi-apochromatic Refractor)

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 350Dm

14x300s @ ISO1600 (70min)

Lacerta MGEN2

Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

Postprocessing in PS5.

An unusual view of M-42, the Great Nebula in Orion, in the context of the entire Orion constellation.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 42m (57 x 30s) RGB + (27 x 30s)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: None

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 13m 30s (15s exposures) LRGB exposure

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: leveled/sharpened in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 300s (20x15s exposures) LRGB exposure

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Stacked: Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Soddy Daisy, TN

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 1h 14m 8s (63 frames) ISO 200/ISO 800 RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Cline River Photography, Photo by Edwina Podemski.

View or purchase items from our portfolio at: www.clineriverphotography.com

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 21m (21x60s) RGB + 21m (21x60s) L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: PHD Guiding

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Cline River Photography, Photo by Edwina Podemski.

View or purchase items from our portfolio at: www.clineriverphotography.com

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 50m LRGB exposure (100x30s RGB and Lum Exposures)

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Stacked: Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 49m RGB + 55m Lum

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: leveled/composited in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 10 x 90s ISO 800 RGB

Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging Filter

Flattener/Correction: Anteres .63x Focal Reducer

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 256×2500mm

Telescope: Meade LX200-GPS 10" ACF

Guided: No

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 10m (10x60s) RGB + 10m (10x60s) L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: PHD Guiding

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 4m 45s

Focus Method: Autofocus

F-stop: F/5

Focal Length: 38mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: none

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: composited/levelled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

For more detail - see the labelled version of this image.

Meade DSI Color/ 800 second (100 8sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm (Semi-apochromatic Refractor)

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 350Dm

5x150s @ ISO1600 (12.5min)

Lacerta MGEN2

Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

Postprocessing in PS5.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 17m LRGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: Autoguided

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Meade DSI Color/ 600 second (40 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 50m (50 x 1m) LRGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 10 x 90s ISO 800 RGB

Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging Filter

Flattener/Correction: Anteres .63x Focal Reducer

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 256×2500mm

Telescope: Meade LX200-GPS 10" ACF

Guided: No

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

My first deep sky objects picture. It was so difficult to focus.

Taken on Mount Pinos, California, on 23-May-2009.

XSI. William Optics 110. CG5 GEM.

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 24m (12 x 60sx2) RGB+L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 225s (15 x 15s) RGB

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: Autostar Envisage

Adjustments: leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Note: This Messier Object image is part of my Photo Messier Marathon 2008.