CCD Image Processing

By Phil Schumacher

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M42 Raw Image (Processed)

M42 Processed Image (Raw)

Teleview NP-101 telescope on Losmandy GM-8 Mount

With SBIG ST-7XME CCD Camera

Maxim D/L CCD 4.07

Dark Frame

Flat Frame

Bias Frame

Raw M51 taken with MN-61 Scope (Processed)

Processed M51 (Raw)

Black-eye Galaxy (poor tracking)

Setup for taking flat frames

Running Man Nebula (NGC-1977)

Colorized

Airplane (?) passes through field of view.

30 Seconds (Next)

(S/N = 0.4)

300 Seconds (Next)

(S/N=2.0)

Stack of 10 300 Seconds (Next)

(S/N = 7.0)

Stack of 32 300 Seconds

(S/N =13)

Effect of Increasing Exposure Time

Mosaic of M42 and NGC 1977

Planetary images

Taken with 6”

Maksutov-Newtonian

Leo Triplet

Dark Frame with Cosmic Ray Artifacts

M13 Stacked (Compare)

M13 DDP Stretched (Back)

The End

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Copyright Phil Schumacher 2005