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Date: March 12, 2012
Author: Tim Doucette
Mount: Celestron CGEM
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE
Exposure: 5 x 5min @ g=1, o=24
 

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The Orion and Running Man nebula.  I will add more data to this later.

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Date: July 8, 2011
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: CGEM
Guiding: Orion 80ED via Orion Starshoot
Camera: QHY8
Filter: Orion Ultrablock
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 10x3min = 30min @ g=1 o=124
Effective Focal Length: 2332mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/10
Want More Info ? http://seds.org/messier/m/m076.html

 

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Date: September 23, 2006
Author: Tim Doucette
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel 300D
Site: Livingston Lake, Alma
Exposure: 1 x 12min @ ISO 200
Effective Focal Length: 50mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/2.2
Want More Info ? http://www.skyfactory.org/ngc7000/ngc7000.htm
 

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Took half the day off to prepare for this adventure at Livingston Lake in Alma. I got to the site and forgot my camera bag.... DOH! Richard was kind enough to lend me his camera Canon 350D and Mathieu introduced me to a new inexpensive lens, Canon 50mm F/1.8 fixed lens. Took a great manually guided exposure of the North American nebula (12min exposure ISO 200). Quite impressive. One thing I learned about my camera, the F ratio is not automatically set to the widest setting. This explains why my shots of the mily way with the stock lens didn't turn out as good as I thought.

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Date: March 3, 2011
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: CGEM
Guiding: Orion 80ED via Orion Starshoot
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 3x5min = 15min, o=1,g=121
Effective Focal Length: 1440mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/6.3
Want More Info ? http://seds.org/messier/m/m001.html

 

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This was my first deep sky image in quite a while. Seems PHD guiding is having some trouble guiding over 5min. Not sure what has happened. 90% of the frames taken that night were bad. Hence this image is over processed since I only had 3 frames to work with. I will continue to add new images as I get them.

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Date: March 3, 2011
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: CGEM
Guiding: Orion 80ED via Orion Starshoot
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 3x5min = 15min, o=1,g=121
Effective Focal Length: 1440mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/6.3
Want More Info ? http://seds.org/messier/m/m001.html

Description

This was my first deep sky image in quite a while. Seems PHD guiding is having some trouble guiding over 5min. Not sure what has happened. 90% of the frames taken that night were bad. Hence this image is over processed since I only had 3 frames to work with. I will continue to add new images as I get them.

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Date: May 22, 2010
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: CGEM
Guiding: Orion 80ED via Orion Starshoot
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 9x8min = 1h 12min @ g=1 o=104
Effective Focal Length: 1440mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/6.3
Want More Info ? http://seds.org/messier/m/m016.html
 

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I was suprised I was able to get this good of an image here in the city of this object with no filters. Especially since it is so low on the horizon.

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Date: December 12, 2009
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: Orion 80ED Apo Refractor
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: C9.25 via Orion Starshoot
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 18 x 15min = 4.5 hours
Effective Focal Length: 600mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/7.5
 

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This was my longest exposure time 15min so far with no drift. Very windy on a couple of nights but I decided to use the frames anyway. No filter or focal reducer. I see now that some sort of light pollution filter will be needed to capture the red nebula in the horsehead.

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Date: August 27, 2009
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: Orion ED80 Apo via Vesta Pro
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 7 x 3min
Effective Focal Length: 2332mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/10
Want More Info ? http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/E/m008.html

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Date: August 15, 2009
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: Orion ED80 Apo via Vesta Pro
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 23 x 1 min
Effective Focal Length: 2332mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/10
Want More Info ? http://observing.skyhound.com/archives/oct/NGC_7662.html

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Date: August 13, 2009
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: Orion 80ED Apo Refractor
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: C9.25S via Vesta Pro Webcam
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 2x5min g=1, o=56
Effective Focal Length: 600
Effective Focal Ratio: f7.5
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This was a first attempt at this nebula. I will need to at least double the exposure time collect more frames for this to be worthwhile.

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Date: July 22, 2009
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: Orion 80ED Apo Refractor
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: C9.25S via Vesta Pro Webcam
Camera: QHY8
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 12 x 5min @ G=1 O=56 = 1 hour
Effective Focal Length: ~600mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f6.3
 

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This was one of my longest exposed images. There are problems with this image however I thought I would post it anyways. I have found the culprit to some color issues I was having. Seems it is the focal reducer. Time to get a WO reducer.

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Date: July 5, 2008
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: Orion 80ED Apo Refractor
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: C9.25S via Vesta Pro Webcam
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel 300D
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 19 x 3min = 57min @ ISO 1600
Effective Focal Length: 600mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/7.5
Want More Info ? http://seds.org/~spider/Spider/Misc/veil.html
 

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This is the eastern part of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnent. This image came out suprisingly better than I thought it would considering it was taken in the part of the sky with the heaviest amount of light pollution. Here is an original frame before processing.

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Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: Orion 80ED Apo Refractor
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: C9.25S via Vesta Pro Webcam
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel 300D
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 8x180sec + 3x1min @ ISO 400 = 27min
Effective Focal Length: 600mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/7.5
Want More Info ? http://seds.org/Messier/M/m042.html
 

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This is my second attempt with the Orion 80ED scope. I noticed that the field is not as flat as I would have liked in the top left corner (you can see elongated stars). I'm going to try my focal reducer and see if this helps. As you can see there is a lot of background noise. I managed to only take two dark frames before my battery in my camera went dead.

This is a composite shot consisting of two areas, the center region and the outer region (combined in PSP).

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Date: October 18, 2007
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: Orion 80mm guidescope via Vesta Pro webcam
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel 300D
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure: 10 x 234sec = 39min @ ISO 400
Effective Focal Length: 2332mm
Effective Focal Ratio: f/10
Want More Info ? http://www.seds.org/Messier/M/m027.html
 

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The dumbell nebula was dicovered by Charles Messier on July 12, 1764. It's beleived to be the first planetary nebula to be discovered. It's distance to us is not known. Estimates vary from 800-3500 light years.

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Date: September 15, 2007
Author: Tim Doucette
Telescope: C9.25
Mount: Celestron AS-GT
Guiding: Orion 80mm guidescope via Vesta Pro webcam
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel 300D
Site: DSE Observatory
Exposure:
Effective Focal Length:
Effective Focal Ratio:
Want More Info ? http://www.seds.org/messier/M/m057.html
 

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This is the first image taken from my new observatory. Imaging just got a whole lot easier. no more 1 1/2 hour wasted setting up and tearing down the equipment.