Galaxies 16
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NGC 3184 Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major

Camera - QSI 532 WS

Telescope - Intes Micro MK 809 8"  Mak Cass @ f/8  FL = 1570mm

Mount - MI-250

LRGB,  L= 46x300s, R=25x180s, G=32x180s, B=25x180s,   all exposures guided with Tak Sky 90 and MX 716.  Lum binned 1X1,  RGB exposures binned 2X2.   Astrodon Gen 2 E RGB filters, Lum Sigma Clip combined in Maxim DL v5, RGB Sigma clip combined in Maxim DL v5,  LRGB combined and additional processing done in Photoshop CS and Pixinsight 1.6

LRGB  230/75/96/75 Total 7.93 Hours

Date – LRGB March 4, 2010

NGC 3184

NGC 3359 Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major

Camera - QSI 532 WS

Telescope - Intes Micro MK 809 8"  Mak Cass @ f/FL = 1570mm

Mount - MI-250

LRGB,  L= 29x300s, R=11x180s, G=16x180s, B=16x180s,  all exposures guided with Tak Sky 90 and MX 716.  Lum binned 1X1,  RGB exposures binned 2X2.   Astrodon Gen 2 E RGB filters, Lum Sigma Clip combined in Maxim DL v5, RGB Sigma clip combined in Maxim DL v5,  LRGB combined and additional processing done in Photoshop CS2 and Pixinxight 1.6.

LRGB 145/33/48/48 Total 4.57 Hours

Date – LRGB  - March 16 & 17, 2010

NGC 3359
 

M100 Spiral Galaxy Coma Berenices

Camera - QSI 532 WS

Telescope - Intes Micro MK 809 8"  Mak Cass @ f/8  FL = 1570mm

Mount - MI-250

LRGB,  L= 40x300s, R=17x180s, G=16x180s, B=28x180s,  all exposures guided with Tak Sky 90 and MX 716.  Lum binned 1X1,  RGB exposures binned 2X2.   Astrodon Gen 2 E RGB filters, Lum Sigma Clip combined in Maxim DL v5, RGB Sigma clip combined in Maxim DL v5,  LRGB combined and additional processing done in Photoshop CS2 and PixInsight 1.6.

LRGB 200/51/48/84 Total 6.38 Hours

Date – Lum - March 18, 2010, RGB -  March 20 & 23,

M100

NGC 6946- Spiral galaxy in Cygnus

Camera - QSI 532 WS

Telescope - Intes Micro MK 809 8"  Mak Cass @ f/8  FL = 1570mm

Mount - MI-250

LRGB,  L= 31x300s, 1x1, R=26x180s, G=12x180s, B=18x180s, 2x2 all exposures guided with Tak Sky 90 and MX 716.  Lum binned 1X1,  RGB exposures binned 2X2.   Astrodon Gen 2 E RGB filters, Lum Sigma Clip combined in Maxim DL v5, RGB Sigma clip combined in Maxim DL v5,  LRGB combined and additional processing done in Photoshop CS2 and PixInsight 1.6.

LRGB 155/78/36/54 Total 5.38 Hours

Date – LRGB - August 7 and 8, 2010

NGC 6946
 

NGC 7640 Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda

Camera - QSI 532 WS

Telescope - Astro Tech 10" RC @ f/6  FL = 1480mm

Mount - MI-250

LRGB,  L= 31x300s, 1x1 R=32x180s, G=20x180s, B=17x180s,  all exposures guided with Tak Sky 90 and MX 716.  All exposures taken with CCDAutopilot V5.  All exposures biinned 1X1.   Astrodon Gen 2 E RGB filters, Lum Sigma Clip combined in Maxim DL v5, RGB Sigma clip combined in Maxim DL v5,  LRGB combined and additional processing done in Photoshop CS2 and Pixinxight 1.7.

LRGB 93/96/60/51

Total 5.00 Hours

Date – LRGB  - August 28-30, 2011

NGC 7640

NGC 7331 Spiral Galaxy in Pegasus

Camera - QSI 532 WS

Telescope - Astro Tech 10" RC @ f/6  FL = 1480mm

Mount - MI-250

LRGB,  L= 44x300s, 1x1 R=11x180s, G=11x180s, B=13x180s,  all exposures guided with Tak Sky 90 and MX 716.  All exposures taken with CCDAutopilot V5.  All exposures biinned 1X1.   Astrodon Gen 2 E RGB filters, Lum Sigma Clip combined in Maxim DL v5, RGB Sigma clip combined in Maxim DL v5,  LRGB combined and additional processing done in Photoshop CS2 and Pixinxight 1.7.

LRGB 132/33/33/39

Total 3.95 Hours

Date – LRGB  - August 26,  2011

NGC 7331