DEEP SKY WEST REMOTE OBSERVATORY - Test Image #2 - Horse Head Nebula in Luminance (Deep Sky West (Lloyd))

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Horsehead nebula · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · The star Alnitak (ζOri) · The star σOri

Image of the day 02/22/2015

DEEP SKY WEST REMOTE OBSERVATORY - Test Image #2 - Horse Head Nebula in Luminance, Deep Sky West (Lloyd)

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DEEP SKY WEST REMOTE OBSERVATORY - Test Image #2 - Horse Head Nebula in Luminance

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This is the 2nd test image from DSW. If you've been following, DSW is a new remote imaging observatory Rowe Mesa, New Mexico (7,200 feet). Tonight's SQM peaked at 21.62...I'm not going to report out on this measure anymore. It's as dark as you can get. I know that I'd rather not be out there alone :-).

There's all sorts of interesting dust formations under the head itself that are quite evident in long Ha exposures, but I wanted to bring through out in a relatively short luminance integration.

Everything worked as planned once again so we're happy with the progress so far. This time I acquired the data from my home office (actually bedroom and kitchen) in suburban Atlanta. I used to have a pretty cool backyard set up. I dismantled by ROR pulled the pier out of the ground. It takes some getting used to not having equipment right at hand, but what's the real point? Tinkering with hardware or making images? We actually had snow today and it's 11F. There would have been no tinkering going on today.

Image acquisition and facility management by M1OASYS, SkyAlert, SkyEye, Unihedron, CCDAP, Maxim DL, FocusMax and TSX.

Shortly will have test images from the 14.5" CDK....just in time for galaxy season. Stay tuned.

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