QSI 683 camera with WSG-8 filter system - SX Lodestar and SXV-AO guiding
Orange County Astronomers Observatory
M82 with SN2014J - 01/25/2014
Kuhn 22 inch telescope Prime Focus f/8 - 10x1 minutes bin 2x2 Luminance - 1x2 minutes bin 4x4 each RGB
Processed using Maxim DL5 - PhotoShop
| This was a team effort between Trey McGriff and myself to test his camera system using the Kuhn telescope. We had guests from Oceanside Photo and Telescope watching our every move while Barbara Toy supervised Telescope Operation. This night had some of the best sky conditions I have seen at the site in quite a while. |
Orange County Astronomers Observatory
Ralph Emerson (OPT), Trey McGriff, Pat Knoll, Mark Thompson (OPT)
Taking Dark Frames. Mark did the Dark Frame processing for Trey's QSI setup.
Orange County Astronomers Observatory
| Watching for the first image download Notice the amount of white light from the laptop. Probable cause of the gradients in the image. We were more focused on the performance of the camera system autoguiding the Kuhn. it took almost 2 hours of tuning to get the system to perform. The effort was worth the time. |
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