M44 Wide Field - STL11000M First Light 

amateur astronomy
and
astrophotography

 

    ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING DETAILS

placeholder Object: M44 Open Cluster - The Beehive Cluster
Constellation Cancer
Date: 4/28/2005
Location: Tierra Verde, Florida
Weather: Warm, Average Seeing
Instrument: Borg 76ED @ F7
Mount: Celestron NexStar 11 GPS
Guiding: Un-guided
Camera: SBIG STL-11000M
Filters: Astronomik LRGB
. Software: Maxim/DL, The Sky 6, ASCOM POTH
Exposures: L: 10x20 seconds @ 1X1 Binning
R: 10x20 seconds @ 1x1 Binning
G: 10x20 seconds @ 1x1 Binning
B: 10x20 seconds @ 1x1 Binning 
Processing: PhotoShop CS
Remarks: First light image for STL-11000M. Image cropped 50% and reduced 50% for Web display. Color balance at R:1.25, G:1, B:1.2

 


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