Comet Neowise and Venus


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a dark sky location on the mesa just west of Taos, NM

 

ET Cluster NGC457

Image obtained November 25-26, 2016 through RVO's Megrez 80mm refractor with Orion field-flattener lens, using a Baader-modified Canon XSi DSLR and BackyardEOS image-acquisition software – 30 carefully selected and stacked 180-second luminance frames combined with multiple dark, flat and bias calibration frames shot at ISO 1600 and totaling more than 210 minutes (90 minutes effective luminance) were used to create this image; optics driven by the Losmandy G-11 mount equipped with Ovision's precision RA worm gear, guided with a ZWO ASI 120MM Monochrome CCD camera through a 60mm guidescope using PhD2 guiding software and post-processed with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CS3 s/w.

 

[copyright Rabbit Valley Observatory/Willis Greiner, 2016 -- all rights reserved]

 

ET Cluster

Image (merely enlarged from image above) obtained November 25-26, 2016 through RVO's Megrez 80mm refractor with Orion field-flattener lens, using a Baader-modified Canon XSi DSLR and BackyardEOS image-acquisition software – 30 carefully selected and stacked 180-second luminance frames combined with multiple dark, flat and bias calibration frames shot at ISO 1600 and totaling more than 210 minutes (90 minutes effective luminance) were used to create this image; optics driven by the Losmandy G-11 mount equipped with Ovision's precision RA worm gear, guided with a ZWO ASI 120MM Monochrome CCD camera through a 60mm guidescope using PhD2 guiding software and post-processed with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CS3 s/w .

 

[copyright Rabbit Valley Observatory/Willis Greiner, 2016 -- all rights reserved]


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