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Meade DSI Color II/ 160 second (20 8sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/203×812mm/LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

 

This is the first image I took with my LXD75 telescope as well as the first image using a Meade DSI Color II

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/ 160 second RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

a poor attempt at M46. star drift is obvious.

more info on M46 here: seds.org/messier/m/m046.html

 

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: 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/ 225 second (15 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/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. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 8m 1s RGB

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.

Meade DSI Color/ 5 minutes (20 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Composited in DeepSkyStacke/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. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

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

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 350D

7x600s @ ISO800 (70min)

Lacerta MGEN2

 

Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

Postprocessing in PS5.

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.

Image in Orion showing the Flame and Horsehead Nebula and M78 De Mairan's Nebula

Sombrero Galaxy - M104

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.

Meade DSI Color/ 225 second (15 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/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. 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.

This is a single 4 second shot with my Meade DSI Color II through my LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian. I have adjusted the gamma to see more of the nebula. I typically do this when imaging deep sky objects to get a better sense of what I'll eventually get after stacking.

Reprocess earlier data

Canon 300mm f2.8 stop down to f4

Sony a7ii astro-mod

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.

Nikon D50/150 second RGB exposure (5*30sec, RegiStax 4)/25mm Plossl eyepiece/114×375mm Telescope/Flintstone, GA/Cropped and smoothed in Photoshop

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: 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.

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.

Meade DSI Color/ 320 second (40 8sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Meade DSI Color II/ 225 second (15 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/203×812mm/LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian/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: 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: 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.

Meade DSI Color II/ 225 second (15 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/203×812mm/LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian/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. 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.

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

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 350Dm

13x300s @ ISO1600 (65min)

Lacerta MGEN2

 

Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

Postprocessing in PS5.

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.

Meade DSI Color/ 320 second RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/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: 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: 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.

Meade DSI Color II/ 348 second (87 4sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/203×812mm/LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian/stacked in DeepSkyStacker/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 15m LRGB exposure (30 x 30s RGB and Lum Exposures)

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

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.

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.

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