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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Ian on Aug 26, 2003, 05:22:00

Title: While the seeing was good, I went deep too.
Post by: Ian on Aug 26, 2003, 05:22:00
As the sky was very still on the 22nd I tried out my newly modded Toucam (I think the Vesta Pro has finally had enough of being pulled about :smile:

(http://212.104.156.50/astropics/M57-22.8.jpg)
(http://212.104.156.50/astropics/M57.jpg)

Other than being generally sharper, the colours are slightly different. This is because this image was taken through an IR block which moved the camera's colour balance back toward that of the eye.

Technically; 9 of 17 25 sec. frames, and dark subtracted. Unsharp masked and histogram stretched. Just visible are the two brightest stars inside the ring.
Title: While the seeing was good, I went deep too.
Post by: Whitters on Aug 27, 2003, 04:29:00
Hey! thats looking realy good.
I hear the call of the soldering iron.