Equipment: Meade
14" LX200R/STL-11000M/Astrodon LRGB filters/Paramount ME
F-ratio: f/9.5
Exposures: LRGB: L 12 x 10 minutes, binned 2x2: R 21 x 10
minutes: G 16 x 10 minutes: B 18 x 10 minutes: RGB binned 3x3
Date: April 1 and 2, 2011
Location: Landers, California, USA
Technical Notes: Individual exposures were dithered using CCDAutoPilot2 and then sigma combined. The RGB image was created in Registar 1.0.
A high-pass filter of 4 pixels was applied to portions of the luminance image. Reduce
Noise and Gaussian Blur were applied to the dim portions of the RGB and luminance images.
