M8/M20 Wide Field H-alpha - STL First Light 

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    ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING DETAILS

placeholder Object: M8 and M20 Wide Field
Constellation Sagittarius
Date: 5/8/2005
Location: Tierra Verde, Florida
Weather: Warm, Poor Seeing
Instrument: Borg 76ED @ F7
Mount: Celestron NexStar 11 GPS
Guiding: Internal
Camera: SBIG STL-11000M
Filters: Astronomik H-alpha 13nm
. Software: Maxim/DL, The Sky 6, ASCOM POTH
Exposures: H-alpha: 3x900 seconds @ 1X1 Binning
Processing: PhotoShop CS, Neat image
Remarks: First light image for STL-11000M. Image cropped 10% and reduced 50% for Web display.
   

 


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