First light from this remarkable instrument:
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Data:
Date: 11/25/13
Exposure: 6 x 1800s
Camera: SBIG STL11000M
Filter: AstroDon 3nm Ha bandpass
Mount: 1200
Telescope: RHA 305 f/3.8
Notes:
Gentle curves and levels adjustments, with a minor bit of noise reduction around the outer edges. No sharpening. Needs a few more sub exposures.
Sky flats
Used the onboard guider chip in the STL. 6 second exposure integrations.
The uploaded image is full resolution, but an 8 bit jpg. The dynamic range found in the original image is compressed.
The journey has just begun.
John Gleason