photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Bill | all galleries >> astronomy >> astro_images >> galaxies > NGC7331 & company widefield (Stellarvue SV66ED)
previous | next
NGC7331 & company widefield (Stellarvue SV66ED)
10/08/07

NGC7331 & company widefield (Stellarvue SV66ED)

Skunk Hollow Observatory

NGC7331 widefield. Shot using a Stellarvue SV66ED piggybacked on top of a SuperCharged Meade LX200 10" with a SBIG ST-2000XM. 130 minutes (26 x 5 minutes) luminance at 1x1 binned. Completely automated acquisition using CCD Commander & MaxIm. Dark and flat field frames applied. Self guided by SBIG ST-2000XM. Aligned and combined in CCDSoft. Applied light DDP in AstroArt. Final processing done in Adobe Photoshop. Transparency was very poor. In the image are NGC7331, NGC7335, NGC7336, NGC7337, NGC7340. On the left and lower left of the image are NGC7343, UGC12132 & CGCC514-79. In the middle of the bottom and slightly to the right of the image is Stephen's Quintet which is comprised of NGC7317, NGC7318A, NGC7318B NGC7319, NGC7320, NGC7320C.

SBIG ST-2000XM,Stellarvue SV66ED

other sizes: small medium large original
comment | share