Date Taken: 06/30/2011
Location: Hendersonville, TN
Telescope: Stellarvue Raptor SVR105 @ f/7
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G controlled by EQMOD performance tuned by Astrotroniks
Camera: QSI583wsg CCD @ -10.0C
Processing: Calibration, DDP in Images Plus v4.0, Adobe Photoshop CS5 using Steve Cannistra?s bi-color combination technique
Exposure: 12 x 20min. OIII, 11 x 20min. Ha
Other Equipment Used: Astrodon 5nm Ha, OIII filters, Starlight Xpress Lodestar via PHD, Stellarvue SFF7-21 flattener; Dew control by Dew Buster
Notes: We just recently purchased a QSI583wsg camera with a full set of Astrodon filters and this is our first image taken with the camera and filters. This image was taken using Astrodon 5nm Ha & OIII filters over two nights from our driveway in Hendersonville, TN, USA. This is also the first time that we have ever processed an image in bi-color.