Noel Carboni
07-04-2008, 09:56 PM
I'm not sure whether this is the right forum for an astroimage, but it's kind of a distant landscape... Okay, VERRRY distant. :) 1,800 light-years away in this case. ;)
I collaborate with a friend named Greg Parker who has built a very nice observatory. We make a lot of astroimages together. He is the hands-on guy, and he runs the observatory and equipment, capturing photons well into the night. I do the digital processing, turning the raw data into images that are as spectacular as I can. We have good subject material for that. :)
At the moment, we're breaking in some new optics we've just received. The following image was captured with a new Starizona Hyperstar 3 lens setup on a Celestron C11 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Essentially the system is a 558mm f/2 (!!) lens on a full-color purpose-built astro camera, a Starlight Xpress SXVF-M25C.
This is a visual color image of the North America Nebula in the consteallation Cygnus, from 11 exposures totaling 36 minutes exposure time. Click on it to see a higher resolution image.
http://forum.ourdarkskies.com/gallery_images/1215226433/gallery_131_16_138683.jpg (http://forum.ourdarkskies.com/gallery_images/1211427088/gallery_131_7_132046.jpg)
-Noel
I collaborate with a friend named Greg Parker who has built a very nice observatory. We make a lot of astroimages together. He is the hands-on guy, and he runs the observatory and equipment, capturing photons well into the night. I do the digital processing, turning the raw data into images that are as spectacular as I can. We have good subject material for that. :)
At the moment, we're breaking in some new optics we've just received. The following image was captured with a new Starizona Hyperstar 3 lens setup on a Celestron C11 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Essentially the system is a 558mm f/2 (!!) lens on a full-color purpose-built astro camera, a Starlight Xpress SXVF-M25C.
This is a visual color image of the North America Nebula in the consteallation Cygnus, from 11 exposures totaling 36 minutes exposure time. Click on it to see a higher resolution image.
http://forum.ourdarkskies.com/gallery_images/1215226433/gallery_131_16_138683.jpg (http://forum.ourdarkskies.com/gallery_images/1211427088/gallery_131_7_132046.jpg)
-Noel