M20_Russ

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Comment by Russ Ruggles on May 17, 2012 at 7:55am

This was from June of 2011 when I first got my Hyperstar - first light straight out of the box. Not bad but not great either. Hope to improve on it this summer :)

Acquired on 6/5/11 from 12:26 am to 12:50am
C-11 with Hyperstar @ F/2
Nexstar GPS fork mount on a wedge mounted on a pier.
Autoguider: Astro Tech AT80 F/6, Meade DSI-C camera and PHD
Imaging camera: Canon 450D, Hap modified (UV/IR Cutoff filter)
Custom White Balance, 800 ISO, 45 seconds. No LP filter.

I loaded 29 lights with 20 darks, 19 flats and 19 bias imaged in DSS (Deep Sky
Stacker). DSS stacked 24 of the 29 frames for a total of 18 minutes.