DEEP SKY IMAGES

First shots with MX7C - 31/05/2002 and 01/06/2002

1 single shot at F/D 3 - No offset, no Dark, no Flat Field

To get these colors, in "set program default" Star_MC7_USB version 2.0e, Pixel Offset is ON, and Line Offset is OFF

Different exposure times to check the effects on the colors

NGC 5128 - 120s	NGC 5128 - 180s	NGC 3372 - 10s	NGC 3372 - 120s
31/05/2002	31/05/2002	31/05/2002	01/06/2002

NGC 6523 - 10s	NGC 6523 - 20s	NGC 6523 - 30s	NGC 6523 - 90s
31/05/2002	31/05/2002	31/05/2002	31/05/2002

NGC 5139 - 15s	NGC 5139 - 30s
31/05/2002	31/05/2002

NGC 6514 - 30s	NGC 6514 - 90s	NGC 6514 - 180s	NGC 6514 - 240s
31/05/2002	31/05/2002	31/05/2002	31/05/2002

Below :

My antiblooming seems to be set correctly now : compare the stars size and shape with the above pictures.

I used a diffraction focuser system to help focusing.

Seing that the blue part of the nebula is really pale, the same picture has been processed with paint shop pro as final step : colors, adjust, hue map, and only saturation shift at +16%.

NGC 6514 - 120s	NGC 6514 - 120s - psp
28/06/2002	28/06/2002