NGC
7635 field
September 19, 2005 session
Instrument: Takahashi FSQ106 refractor (4-inch aperture).
Camera: Modified Canon EOS 350D (internal
IR rejection filter removed). Stack of 18 x 600 s at ISO200. Filter: Astronomik
IR cut (2-inch diam.) reject the excess of IR light (no Halpha
filter used for this session). The conditions are
very severe: bright suburban sky and four days after full moon (the
limiting mag visually naked eye from my observatory is near 3). Software:
Iris is used for remote control the
DSRL (via
QuickRemote USB
interface), autoguiding and processing.
The original files are of RAW type (.CR2). The adopted white balance coefficient are R:1.38, G: 1.00, B: 1.23. The processing is minimal: dark frame subtraction, flat-field and gradient removal were applied (gradient mask is computed on the red layer - see method here). Final touch: a simple logarithm look up table modification under Iris is used for nebula images.
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Crops of the final image (original scale)
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September 30, 2005 session
Instrument: Takahashi FSQ106 refractor (4-inch aperture). Camera: Modified Canon EOS 350. Filters: Astronomik UHC filter associated to an Astronomik IR-cut filter (click here for the plot of the resulting transmission). Exposure: Stack of 20 x 20 minutes. Location: Castanet Observatory (no moon light, but always suburban). Software: Iris (remote control of the Digital SLR, autiguiding and processing). The adopted white balance coefficient are R:1.20, G: 1.00, B: 1.10. Simple logarithm stretching for harmonize the nebulae aspect. Click on the image for enlarge.
Below, details of the image September 30, and comparison with a 350D infrared image taken the September 26, 2005 (filter: RG10 filter, exposure: 20 x 10 minutes). Note the presence of IR sources in projection with the nebulae (or associated ?) i.e. the very red stars. The Halpha emission is green colored in the composite infrared image :
Same for the SH2-159 region :
Same for the NGC7538 region:
Tentative for increase spatial resolution with the drizzle algorithm. A significant gain is visible (but the detectivity is lower) :
