K3's Astronomy - Deep Sky

	"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have set in place, what is Man that You are mindful of him?" -- Psalm 8:3,4
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M27 - The Dumbbel nebula - Processing details

Date: 24.10.2001
Time (20:40 - 20:51UT)
Telescope: Orion Europa 200 (8" / F6)
Camera: Philips Vesta 675SC at prime focus
Capture and stacking: K3CCDTools
Resolution: 1.92 arcsec/pixel
Seeing: limiting magnitude for naked eye 4.5
Location: balcony in urban site

One raw image from set of 25s @ 80% gain (more amount of hot pixels than stars)

One raw image from set of 45s @ 80% gain (Some nebulae structure is visible)

13x25s @80% gain, Corel PhotoPaint	13x25s @80% gain, Corel PhotoPaint+ACDSee
13x25s @80% gain, MaximDL + Corel PhotoPaint	4x45s @80% gain, Corel PhotoPaint
	<<< 13x25s is sharper than 4x45s and shows more stars, but 4x45s show more cleare nebulae structure. So I combined the two above pictures in K3CCDTools and result is in the left.

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Last Update: 25.10.2001