{"id":51,"date":"2007-12-11T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2008-01-28T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:35:59","slug":"m42-and-a-poor-m51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"M42 and a poor M51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blimey,it was cold last night (and colder still tonight!).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here goes:<\/p>\n<p>OTA: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + 0.8 FR\/FF<br \/>\nGuiding: NS8GPS @ f\/10 + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 40 x 30s, 20 x 240s, 15 x 480s, CLS<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<br \/>\nNote #1: I left the blackpoint quite grey to show allthe dusty bits \ud83d\ude42 but it also shows some of the oddities when I remove the gradient<br \/>\nNote #2: This damn near killed my 1Gb laptop!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Published in Practical Astronomer, February 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/messier\/m42_20071210_2xdrizzle_2nd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/messier\/m42_20071210_2xdrizzle_small_2nd.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think thats OK? Well, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/messier\/m42_20071210_2xdrizzle_2nd.jpg\">&gt;&gt;HERE&lt;&lt;<\/a> for the 8Mb 2886&#215;3492 version, or clickon the image above.<\/p>\n<p>This is a process straight from stacking, and I may go back and do a three layer mask version of this (on my desktop&#8230; think I`ll leave the laptop to recover)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>M51<br \/>\nOTA: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS @ f\/7.(something)<br \/>\nCamera: QHY8 OSC<br \/>\nGuiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: MaximDL\/CCD, 10 x 900s, CLS Filter<br \/>\nProcessing: DeepSkyStacker, ImagesPlus, Photoshop CS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astro Tools<br \/>\nNote: I didnt nail the focus on this, and it shows \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/messier\/m51_20071210.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blimey,it was cold last night (and colder still tonight!). Anyway, here goes: OTA: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + 0.8 FR\/FF Guiding: NS8GPS @ f\/10 + DSI-C + PHD Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 40 x 30s, 20 x 240s, 15 x 480s, CLS Stacked: DeepSkyStacker Post Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools Note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}