photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Type your message and click Add Comment
It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest.
Enter an optional name and contact email address. Name
Name Email
help private comment
Alan Smallbone | all galleries >> Galleries >> Astrophotography > NGC 891
previous | next
Oct. 28, 2006 Alan Smallbone

NGC 891

Anza, CA

This edge on galaxy was taken with a Meade DSI Pro II, cooled with an Outback Cooler to 10C, an Atik filter wheel housed the Astronomik filters, this LRGB image is composed of 120x30x30x30 minutes of exposure in 5 min sub-exposures. Calibrated and combined in Ccdstack, touched up in Photoshop. Scope was a Vixen VC200L at f6.4 on a Losmandy G-11 with Gemini, guided with a Meade DSI Pro I on a Borg 77mm achromat, capture and guiding software was MaximDL.

Meade DSI Pro II with Astronomik filters,Vixen VC200L at f6.4

other sizes: small medium original auto
comment | share