Full moon tests of the new Maxim DL v.6 CCD software
-- Open clusters in the Winter Milkyway
Uploaded 2/15/16
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Here is a set of
four images taken Saturday night with the 6" f/3.6 Cometracker
Schmidt Newtonian and our ST10xme CCD camera. In the past we
have used the very clunky and haveing to deal with the "one
at a time" kind of shooting you have to do with the cameras
native software CCDops. This new aquisition allows fully automated
shooting for hours on end, and also has some very powerful processing
functions for taking the final images and turning them into a
polished product.
The six inch when
laser collimated produces superb star images using the Baader
MPCC. Here are few examples with a blazing full moon nearby making
the whole sky bright blue in color. Using the tools in maxim,
I removed the blue background and got the color balance closer
to reality. (you can never get the colors right during full moon!)
Each frame consists of three two minute exposures with tricolor
filters.
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Instrument: Meade 622 Six inch f/3.6 Schmidt Newtonian
Mount: Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera: SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: Meade DSI Pro w/80mm piggyback refractor
Exposure: LRGB:
AstroDon RGB Combine Ratio: 1: 1.05: 1.2
Location: Payson, Arizona, Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing FWHM = 3 arcsec , Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature: 25 F
CCD Temperature: -20 C
Image Processing Tools:
Maxim DL6: Calibration, deblooming (Starizona Debloomer), aligning, stacking
PixInsight: Curves, Deconvolution
Photoshop CS2: Curves, Color Correction, Gradient removal (Grad Xterminator), Cleanup
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