Jun 16 2012

Reworked My M27 Data from the other Night

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June 16, 2012

I spent little bit of time reworking the M27 image data from the other night. Thanks Gordon for some tutorial links you sent! Applied some of the lessons learned from these tutorials. See Image Below M27. Click Here for Larger Version. I will be investing in a coma corrector for the Meade 5000 80 MM APO at some point in future. I am very happy with this image, shows some great progress. Looking forward to posting some more images, the cooler weather is not far away. A zoomed and cropped version of this image is currently located in the website header image. Update 28 Aug 2012- I updated screen resolution of website to a full 1280 resolution to allow for larger images within the content area of blog.

M27 June 13/14 2012 by DaltonSkyGazer Observatory

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