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Image of the Week
(6/28/2009) |

IC 1396 and vdB142 in
Cepheus. This
cloud of star-forming gas
and dust contains a myriad of interesting details.
IC 1396 spans an
area of the sky in
Cepheus that is about 6 times the width of the full moon. The
silhouetted
cloud vdB142 is the most prominent feature. For some additional veiws see the
Russ Croman's image
and the
NOAO image.
This image was made on 6/21, 6/22, and 6/24/09 using an
STL11000
camera with an ASA 10N at f/3.6, along with
Baader narrow band filters (Hα, OIII and SII. The
data frames were acquired and stacked in
MaximDL. To simulate
'true'
colors, Hα was mapped to red, and OIII was mapped to green with a
combination of OIII & SII
mapped to blue. Final
processing was done in Photoshop.
Click the thumbnails below for the
Hα data and a previous image from 2008.
Hα
SIIHαOIII
(2008)
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| This page illustrates what can be photographed using
commonly available amateur telescopes and a CCD camera. I
currently use an
SBIG STL11000M
camera and have previously used a
SBIG and Starlight
Xpress cameras, as well as a
Cookbook
245 camera that I built
myself. Most of the images were actually taken from my backyard near a busy street with
several street lights. Not only is the CCD camera a great imaging tool, but it allows
"real time" observation of objects not normally visible in areas with
moderate-severe light pollution. |

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