You can also view this as a short music video on Instagram
www.instagram.com/p/BSGqI7nDoQe/?taken-by=hancockterry&am...I had previously posted this image with only "20 x 2 minute exposures"
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/33490437146/in/datepos...I had forgotten (old age) I had also captured 45 x 2 minute exposures on the 17th February while I was using a lower gain setting so I decided to process it, I was hoping to combine all of the data but was unable due to the different gain settings I used and a slight ifference of camera rotation but this is the resulting image of this newly discovered data.
Total Integration Time 90 minutes
The new QHY367C, Full Frame 7376x4938, 36.4mega pixel One Shot Color CMOS camera. Here I used the original DSO setting of 1208
Captured from the backyard of John Mansur's house on the slopes of Grand Mesa at an elevation of 6150 feet in Western Colorado on the 17th February 2017.
Technical Information
Location: Grand Mesa, Whitewater Colorado
Captured February 17 2017
Size: 7376 x 4938 pixels
Pixel Size: 4.88um x 4.88um
Total integration Time 90 minutes
QHY367C Full Frame One Shot Color COLDMOS cooled to -20C
Gain 1208, Offset 76
Darks and Flats no Bias
45 x 120 sec @ 1x1
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Epsilon
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Pre Processing Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processing CS6
Please check out the new observatory progress on Grand Mesa, Colorado
www.grandmesaobservatory.com/
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