Needle Galaxy, April 22-24 2011
6 hours LRGB
(L: 150 minutes unbinned and RGB: 70 mins each,2x2b binned).
Horsehead Nebula, December 2010
5 hours LRGB and Halpha total
published in SkyNews May/June 2011 & Photo of the Week #454!
Elephant's Trunk Nebula, August 6-15 2010
10 hours LRGB total, 2.5" seeing, 0.75" pixels,
L (unbinned, 300 mins); RGB (2x2 binned, each 100 min).
Cocoon Nebula, June 18/19 2010
100 min LRGB total, 2.5" seeing, 0.75" pixels,
L (unbinned, 4x10min); RGB (2x2 binned, each 4x5min).
"First deeper light", June 4/5 and 5/6, 2010
M101, 105 min LRGB total, partly thro' cloud, 3" seeing, 1" pixels,
selected as SkyNews Picture of the Week (see #435)!
L (2x2 binned, 7x5min); RGB (4x4 binned, each 7x3-1/3min).
M13, 25 min LRGB total, variable conditions, 2.5" seeing, 0.75" pixels,
L (1x1 binned, 10 min), RGB (2x2 binned, each 5 min).
"Squeezed light", May 23/24 2010
M57, 25 min LRGB total, 2.7" seeing, 1" pixels,
shot between setting of gibbous Moon and rising astronomical twilight,
L (2x2 binned, 2x5 min), RGB (3x3 binned, each 2x2.5 min)
"First light", May 12/13 2010
M51, 30 min RGB total (each 3x3 binned, 10x1min), 1.5" pixels;
M27, 15 min RGB total (each 3x3 binned, 5x1min), 1.5" pixels.
Trottier's Cabin in the Sky Observatory Gallery!
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