| NOTES |
DATE:
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Tuesday,
October 30, 2007
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TIME:
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2:11
- 3:00 am EDT
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CAMERA:
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Canon
EOS 300D Digital Rebel (unmodified) |
EXPOSURE:
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6
minutes 45 seconds (1 × 25 seconds @ ISO 800, 13 × 20
seconds @ ISO 800, 6 × 20 seconds @ ISO 400)
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LOCATION:
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Owl
Observatory - Kalamazoo Nature Center |
INSTRUMENT:
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12"
LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain @ f/10
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PROCESSING:
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Images obtained with DSLRFocus 3. Registered, aligned, stacked, and dark frame subtracted with Deep Sky
Stacker. Further processing done with
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Noise Ninja 2. |
COMMENTS:
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Five
days before this image was taken Comet Holmes fit on the tiny chip of
my webcam. Now, it takes up a considerable portion of chip of my
digital camera. The gas and dust ejected by this comet on October
24 has expanded at an amazing rate.
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