Horsehead Nebula

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Horsehead Nebula

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Single shot, 60 sec.

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Wow, Tachyon....looks really good. all the hard work paid off...
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Wow that's nice... Taken in Singapore? And seems like you caught a meteor as well!
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Hi,
WOW!! Nice!!

You got an Epsilon 250 and ST8XE?? :wink:

Anyway, I don't think you took that in Singapore... I mean the scope and ST8XE is not locate in Singapore, right?? Did you do what Ariefm did... using those online remote access rent-a-scope service??? Hee hee hee :P :P :P

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Nope.. my equipment list does not have an Epsilon 250 and ST8XE. Yes, it was taken via the Rent-a-scope (www.arnierosner.com)! Arnie is very helpful...

Yeah.. the meteor ruined the picture! :(

Here's another one of M1 (LRGB, total 20 shots)...

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wucheeyiun wrote:Wow, Tachyon....looks really good. all the hard work paid off...
Unfortunately, the 'hard work' in this case is learning how to use the Maxim/DL! :) You really should try Rent-a-scope!
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Nice work Andrew. Please pardon my ignorance, how come the Horsehead nebula is in black and white only?

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siahheng wrote:how come the Horsehead nebula is in black and white only?
Well, because I took it in B&W mode only. This CCD camera takes only B&W pictures. For color, you have to take different B&W pictures using different color filters (Red, Green and Blue) and then recombine them into one, as shown above with the M1.

Cheers!
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