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IC 1805, This is the core of the Heart Nebula. This nebula is so large that I couldn't get it all in my field of view (50.7 x 76.1 arcmin). This is my longest exposure to date, but it could use a lot more time.
Image:
Prime Focus
Image scale: 1.17 arcsec/pix
FOV: 50.7 x 76.1 arcmin
24x5min, 2 hours total exposure at ISO 800
8 darks
51 flats
40 bias frames
Stacked in DeepSky Stacker, processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Framed in CorelDraw
Equipment:
Imaging Camera: Hutech Modified Canon T1i
Scope: Modified 200m f5 Konus Newtonian with Baader MPCC coma corrector and Baader UV/IR cut filter
Mount: Losmandy G-11 Gemini GoTo V.1.04
Tripod: Losmandy Heavy Duty
Autoguide Scope: 80mm f5 Orion Shorty
Autoguide Camera: Orion Starshooter using PhD Guiding
Image acquired on 11/12/2012 at the LAS Baker Observatory, Curby, Indiana
Transparency 5/5
Seeing 4/5
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
