ASTRO: M14

No I wasn't trying to image in the dawn sky. What with all the clouds
of late I started going through and cleaning out the unneeded files on
the hard drive and moving no longer needed files to two external drives,
one backs up the data on both the computer and other external drive. In
doing so I'm finding long lost data.

Back in June I took a series of shots of M14. It is somewhat low in my
lousy seeing. I imaged for 4 hours, two on either side of the meridian
hoping for a few usable shots. I remember looking at the data at the
time and finding it pretty lousy. Guess I then thought I'd erased it.
Good thing I didn't. I examined every frame and found 6 usable
luminosity frames. Turns out I took only three frames of each color,
one on the east side of the meridian, two on the west. They were lousy
but since color need not be high resolution they were usable. I put it
all together and the result isn't all that bad. Though that low in the
sky I did reduce the size to 1.5" per pixel rather than my usual 1" per
pixel to make it look somewhat better.

Note the total absence of faint fuzzies. The dust in our galaxy behind
M14 must be really thick in this area for none to get through.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x5' RGB=3x5', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
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This image showed me how under exposed my old image is. The fainter stars
in the cluster sure show up here.

Nice indeed!

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www.photonsfate.com

nice image Rick

and here I thought i was going to see a photo of you holding a military
rifle..... perhaps fron the Vietnam War era: i mean they did use M14s there
before the M16 was deployed




"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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No I wasn't trying to image in the dawn sky. What with all the clouds
of late I started going through and cleaning out the unneeded files on
the hard drive and moving no longer needed files to two external drives,
one backs up the data on both the computer and other external drive. In
doing so I'm finding long lost data.

Back in June I took a series of shots of M14. It is somewhat low in my
lousy seeing. I imaged for 4 hours, two on either side of the meridian
hoping for a few usable shots. I remember looking at the data at the
time and finding it pretty lousy. Guess I then thought I'd erased it.
Good thing I didn't. I examined every frame and found 6 usable
luminosity frames. Turns out I took only three frames of each color,
one on the east side of the meridian, two on the west. They were lousy
but since color need not be high resolution they were usable. I put it
all together and the result isn't all that bad. Though that low in the
sky I did reduce the size to 1.5" per pixel rather than my usual 1" per
pixel to make it look somewhat better.

Note the total absence of faint fuzzies. The dust in our galaxy behind
M14 must be really thick in this area for none to get through.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x5' RGB=3x5', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Actually my arms go back a lot farther. I have many black powder guns
and a few replicas from way back. I have a shooting range in the woods
for black powder as well. But nothing as modern as an M14 I'm afraid.
Or as rapid firing. I'm not quite that quick with a ramrod.

Rick


Richard Crisp wrote:
nice image Rick

and here I thought i was going to see a photo of you holding a military
rifle..... perhaps fron the Vietnam War era: i mean they did use M14s there
before the M16 was deployed




"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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No I wasn't trying to image in the dawn sky. What with all the clouds
of late I started going through and cleaning out the unneeded files on
the hard drive and moving no longer needed files to two external drives,
one backs up the data on both the computer and other external drive. In
doing so I'm finding long lost data.

Back in June I took a series of shots of M14. It is somewhat low in my
lousy seeing. I imaged for 4 hours, two on either side of the meridian
hoping for a few usable shots. I remember looking at the data at the
time and finding it pretty lousy. Guess I then thought I'd erased it.
Good thing I didn't. I examined every frame and found 6 usable
luminosity frames. Turns out I took only three frames of each color,
one on the east side of the meridian, two on the west. They were lousy
but since color need not be high resolution they were usable. I put it
all together and the result isn't all that bad. Though that low in the
sky I did reduce the size to 1.5" per pixel rather than my usual 1" per
pixel to make it look somewhat better.

Note the total absence of faint fuzzies. The dust in our galaxy behind
M14 must be really thick in this area for none to get through.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x5' RGB=3x5', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".





--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Beautiful image, Rick!
I like the resolution and colours on your images.
And thank you for the comment (and explanation) of my M35 / NGC 2158 image.
Greetings,
Gordan

"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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No I wasn't trying to image in the dawn sky. What with all the clouds
of late I started going through and cleaning out the unneeded files on
the hard drive and moving no longer needed files to two external drives,
one backs up the data on both the computer and other external drive. In
doing so I'm finding long lost data.

Back in June I took a series of shots of M14. It is somewhat low in my
lousy seeing. I imaged for 4 hours, two on either side of the meridian
hoping for a few usable shots. I remember looking at the data at the
time and finding it pretty lousy. Guess I then thought I'd erased it.
Good thing I didn't. I examined every frame and found 6 usable
luminosity frames. Turns out I took only three frames of each color,
one on the east side of the meridian, two on the west. They were lousy
but since color need not be high resolution they were usable. I put it
all together and the result isn't all that bad. Though that low in the
sky I did reduce the size to 1.5" per pixel rather than my usual 1" per
pixel to make it look somewhat better.

Note the total absence of faint fuzzies. The dust in our galaxy behind
M14 must be really thick in this area for none to get through.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x5' RGB=3x5', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Very good result indeed for such a low object.

Stefan

"Johnny Borborigmi" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On 2008-01-29 16:48:24 -0500, Rick Johnson said:

Note the total absence of faint fuzzies. The dust in our galaxy behind
M14 must be really thick in this area for none to get through.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x5' RGB=3x5', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick


Awesome image!

Great image Rick!

Rick Johnson wrote:
No I wasn't trying to image in the dawn sky. What with all the clouds
of late I started going through and cleaning out the unneeded files on
the hard drive and moving no longer needed files to two external drives,
one backs up the data on both the computer and other external drive. In
doing so I'm finding long lost data.

Back in June I took a series of shots of M14. It is somewhat low in my
lousy seeing. I imaged for 4 hours, two on either side of the meridian
hoping for a few usable shots. I remember looking at the data at the
time and finding it pretty lousy. Guess I then thought I'd erased it.
Good thing I didn't. I examined every frame and found 6 usable
luminosity frames. Turns out I took only three frames of each color,
one on the east side of the meridian, two on the west. They were lousy
but since color need not be high resolution they were usable. I put it
all together and the result isn't all that bad. Though that low in the
sky I did reduce the size to 1.5" per pixel rather than my usual 1" per
pixel to make it look somewhat better.

Note the total absence of faint fuzzies. The dust in our galaxy behind
M14 must be really thick in this area for none to get through.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x5' RGB=3x5', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick

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