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Groundbreaking!635 viewsThe ground is broken on the new observatory and pump equipment building.
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Observatory Framed - Close View632 viewsThis view looks into the observatory from the warm room. There are two two-inch conduits coming from the piers to the control room. The door is on the right, with a window for viewing the equipment.
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Observatory Framed - View to West630 viewsLooking at the east side of the observatory.
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NGC 7331 - 3rd Processing629 viewsNGC 7331 -- Spiral Galaxy in Pegasus. Maxim DL, CCDStack, Photoshop. Third processing, taking out more of the gradient in the backgound.
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First Quarter Moon August, 2008623 viewsThe first quarter Moon, the first image taken on the new AP-900 mount. This is a 3-image mosaic. processed from three 1900 image AVIs in Registax, merged into one image in Photoshop, and processed in PixInsight. The primary sharpening algorithm was regularized deconvolution.
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Palomar in the Distance 2623 viewsThe dome for Mt. Palomar's 200 inch telescope can be seen from the site of the new observatory.
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NGC 1530 -- Spiral Galaxy in Camelopardalis623 viewsNGC 1530 -- Spiral Galaxy in Camelopardalis. Captured with MaximDL and CCD Commander. Calibrated and processed in PixInsight.
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M42 -- Nebula in Orion621 viewsThe Nebula in Orion, M42, with the trapezium at the center. Taken in red, green, blue, and hydrogen alpha (Ha). Processed in Maxim DL, stacked in CCD Stack, color combine and other processing in PixInsight, final touch-up in Photoshop. This data sat on the hard drive for over two years before I got around to processing it.
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Craters Copernicus and Kepler620 viewsCraters Copernicus and Kepler, Mare Imbrium and Oceanus Procellarum, taken at near to a full Moon. This is a mosaic of 8 separate images, stacked in Registax, the mosaic was built in Photoshop, the image was processed in PixInsight, and finished in Photoshop.
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Sun in Ha 14-Sep #1616 viewsThe Sun in Ha taken through a Lunt 80mm dedicated solar telescope. Video stream stacked in AviStack, processed in PixInsight, finished in Photoshop.
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Graded and Trenched Site615 viewsA panoramic view of the graded and trenched site after the first day of work. The soil is solid denatured granite, very solid.
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M101 -- The Pinwheel Galaxy615 viewsM101 / NGC 5457, the Pinwheel Galaxy, a spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. Data acquired and reduced in Maxim DL, aligned and stacked in CCDStack 2, processed in PixInsight, and finished in Photoshop. There is some optical aberration, I think from the focal reducer, that distorts the stars, particularly at the top of the frame.
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