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IC410


Constellation: Auriga

IC410 is a region of faint Ha nebulosity surrounding the open star cluster NGC1893. IC410 contains a couple of interesting filaments. The cluster is small and located in the centre of the 20061216 image below.


11 November 2007

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Equipment:
Scope: Celestron C8 with Celestron 0.63 reducer
Camera: Artemis 285
Filters: Astronomik Ha (13Nm)
Exposure 14x720s (1x1 binning)
Guide scope: Takahashi FS60c (on angle a adapter)
Guide camera: Vesta SC3 colour webcam
Mount: Vixen GPDX
Capture sw: Artemis Capture
Guiding sw: wxAstroCapture and MTSca Pro

Processing:
Calibration: ImageTOOLSca bias/darks/flats
Stacking: ImageTOOLSca
Adjustments: Photoshop CS2

16 December 2006

Equipment:
Scope: Celestron C8 with Celestron 0.63 reducer
Camera: Artemis 285
Filters: Astronomik Ha (13Nm)
Exposure
15x240s (2x2 binning)
16x240s (1x1 binning)
Guide scope: Takahashi FS60c
Guide camera: Vesta SC3 bw webcam
Mount: Vixen GPDX
Capture sw: Artemis Capture (to 16bit FITS)
Guiding sw: K3CCDTools3 and MTSca Pro

Processing:
Calibration: ImageTOOLSca bias/darks/flats
Stacking: ImageTOOLSca
Adjustments: Photoshop CS2

9 December 2006

Equipment:
Scope: Celestron C8 with Celestron 0.63 reducer
Camera: Artemis 285
Filters: Astronomik Ha (13Nm)
Exposure (2x2 binning): 19x240sec
Guide scope: Takahashi FS60c
Guide camera: Vesta SC3 bw webcam
Mount: Vixen GPDX
Capture sw: Artemis Capture (to 16bit FITS)
Guiding sw: K3CCDTools3 and MTSca Pro

Processing:
Calibration: ImageTOOLSca bias/darks/flats
Stacking: ImageTOOLSca
Adjustments: Photoshop CS2