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. It was captured on the first night of the Marathon.

Meade DSI Color/ 1005 second (67 x 15seconds) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Stacked in DeepSkyStacker/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.

The Andromeda Galaxy (my second shot) taken with a Meade DSI - 14 frame grayscale composite image - at prime focus on my 114x500mm telescope.

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: 27m LRGB exposure (54 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.

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/ 150 second (10 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

Meade DSI Color/ 416 second RGB exposure/3X Barlow/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.

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 12m 50s ISO 200 RGB

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.

Meade DSI Color/ 200 second 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: 12m LRGB exposure (48 x 15s 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

The Veil Nebula last night. A supernova remnant in Cygnus.First time I've taken an image of this beauty.

Tek stuff: Canon 6D mark ii, William Optic ZS61 refractor, iOptron CEM40 mount. 22, 5 minute guided exposures at ISO 1600. 12 dark frames. No flats, dark flats or bias frames used. RAW images processed in Raw Therapee to TIFF files, Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, Stretched using r-n-c stretch algorithm, Reduced stars to high light nebulosity in Photoshop using Astropanel extension and Sharpened using Topaz Sharpen AI.

#veilnebula, #canon6dmarkii, #wozs61, #ioptron, #astropanel, #topazlabs

Multiple stacked images of M38 in the constelation of Auriga

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/ 720 second (90 8sec 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.

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/ 750 second (50 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Composited and leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

This picture was taken using prime focus with Meade LXD-55 SN6 telescope under the light polluted city sky. It was a result of stacking 5 light frames, a dark frame and a bias frame. No flat frame was used.

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.

Sony alpha 7ii astro mod

Canon 400mm f5.6 stop down to f6.3

STC Astro MS filter

Total integration time around 9 hours

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.

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/ 400 second (100 4sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/203×812mm/LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian/leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA

This is a single 4 second shot with my Meade DSI Color II through my LXD75 8" Schmidt-Newtonian. The Trapezium is clearly visible in this image.

Meade DSI Color/ 450 second (30 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Stacked in DeepSkyStacker/Cropped 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: 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/ 450 second (30 15sec exposures) RGB exposure/Prime focus/114×500mm Telescope/Stacked in DeepSkyStacker/Cropped and leveled in Photoshop/Flintstone, GA