IC410 from Dream Machine and Stinger 450

by Richard Crisp

I ended up concentrating on the "tadpoles" in IC410, continuing on an object that I had taken a few test exposures of the prior night. The seeing still was not all that great due to upper air disturbances caused by the position of the jet stream, but was definitely better than Wed night. Hopefully I will have good seeing soon, because I would like to shoot the scope at full focal length, without the reducer (5760mm vs 3366mm), to continue my testing.

The Dream Machine's big 24 x 24 micron back-illuminated pixels are like a photon vacuum cleaner compared to the "ccd with sunglasses" performance I see with the KAF3200ME sensor. Not a bad sensor at all, mind you, but it is in a different league with the 6.8 x 6.8 micron microlensed pixels. When the seeing is good, then it is a lot of fun to use on the stinger at 0.42 arc-sec/pixel.

I processed the image two ways: with and without deconvolution. http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/ic410_mk1sn2_dm_geg_ch_ha_page.htm

comments welcome.

Posted on sf-bay-tac Dec 01, 2006 08:20:08 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.4 Dec 13, 2006 21:52:44 PT