Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  NGC 896
Steve 3rd Try at Jerry Keith's Heart Nebula for DSLR Astro Image Processing Yahoo Group, Steve Gallenson
Steve 3rd Try at Jerry Keith's Heart Nebula for DSLR Astro Image Processing Yahoo Group
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Steve 3rd Try at Jerry Keith's Heart Nebula for DSLR Astro Image Processing Yahoo Group

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This is my 3rd Attempt at Jerry' great Image. I increased the saturation and did some star shirking techniques in Images Plus

Jerry has kindly given permission for members to post the image to other sites as long as credit to him and to the list are given. Please include links to the group(https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dslr_astro_image_processing/info) and to Jerry’s web site at http://www.theconstellationranch.com/ .

Jerry’s image is over nine hours, yes that is 9 hours, of integration taken from a Bortle 1 sky with good seeing. The image details are as follows:

Camera: modded Canon 1000D

Telescope: Astro Tech AT 65EDQ

Focal Ratio: f/6.5

Mount: Takahashi EM200 Temma 2M

Guider: Orion Mini Autoguider

Exposure: 7.91 hours (95 * 300 second subs) at ISO800, calibrated with darks only

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Steve 3rd Try at Jerry Keith's Heart Nebula for DSLR Astro Image Processing Yahoo Group, Steve Gallenson