Dear all,
on Feb. 20th my club had its monthly member trek to our dark sky imaging site: Area 51.
After fiddling around for 2 hours with Maxim and trying to understand, still, how it works (my gosh how many settings does that program have?!!?) I slewed to M78 and started imaging it.
Turns out that there's some noise problem in the data, and unfortunately nothing much can be done. I have tried my best in processing what I have but I will have to image this one again.
Please go easy on me: this is my first dark nebula and my second light at CCD imaging!
20 x 6 minutes, no darks.
EM200 - Guided with Mini Borg 50
Pentax 125 SDP
SXVF-M25C
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http://www.backyardskies.com/Backyar...formation.html
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