Flame and horsehead

2013-02-24 0 comment(s)

Unfortunately this night the full moon was up, so it was near impossible to do any imaging at all, which is visible in this picture. We wanted to try out our new astronomik CLS filter, the full-moon however prevented us from this. In this image the horsehead is just barely visible, even though we gathered a total of 16 minutes of data. This is a target which we will try again next time (when the moon won't be up).

Date: 2013-02-24
Location: Ekerö, Sweden
Temperature: -3 °C
Telescope: Skywatcher Equinox 80 APO
Camera: Canon 600D
Mount: Meade fork-mount
Exposure time: 16 X 60 sec
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Other info: Autoguided with LX200GPS 12inch, PHD/GPUSB and DSI-Pro.
Processing: Stacked in DSS, processed in photoshop