These galaxies are found by setting the Telrad halfway bewteen the two bright stars along the bottom of Leo, tangent to the line connecting them. The fuzzies are just visible at 1 s exposures in the guider and the imager. I had a lot of trouble framing this shot because they barely fit and I can't tolerate any more focal reduction at all without introducing a lot of coma. There is some light wind tonight but I'm guiding OK (north only). CCD at 11 °C. Those pesky clouds cut this session way shorter than it should have been, so I really need more data. This really should be re-done with the ST80 to get a wider field of view. M95 is at bottom right, M96 at top left.
Date: 12 Apr 2013
Subject: M95, M96
Scope: AT8IN + Antares 0.5x focal reducer
Filter: None
Mount: CG-5 (Synta motors)
Guiding: 9x50 Finder/Guider + DSI Ic + PHD 1.14.2
Camera: DSI IIc (no chiller, T = ~9 °C)
Acquisition: Nebulosity 3.1.5, no dither
Exposure: 13x300 s
Stacking: Neb 3, bad pixel map, bias included, normalize first, trans+rot align, 1.5 SD stack.
Processing: StarTools 1.3 Crop, Develop, Wipe, Develop, Color:cap green to brown, saturation 1000%, bottom full top full; HDR
ptimize, Deconvolute:3.0 pix, Track:no noise reduction, Mask out the galaxies, Denoise, Magic:Shrink , Life:Moderate. CS6 Astronomy Tools layer masked levels, star color enhance. StarTools 1.3 Repair:Warp. CS6 AstroFrame.
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