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M11 Wild Duck Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 8x2min	M46 Open Cluster in Puppis Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 4x10min	Moon & Jupiter Test Images Scope LX200R @f10 Camera SBIG STi Colour Exposure Sub Second
M16 Eagle Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 8x7min	NGC 2070 Tarantula Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 7x5min	M20 Trifid Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 3x5min
M83 Southern Spiral Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 60 mins	Eta Carina Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 3x5min	M42 Orion Nebula Scope Orion ED80 Camera SBIG ST8300C Exposure 8x5min

Starshoot Pro Images

M42

Taken at F10 through the LX200 - 10 Raw subs of 500 seconds each

Omega Centauri

Taken with the ED80 - 3 RAW subs at 400 seconds each.

Leo Triplet

Taken with the ED80 - 6 RAW subs at 400 seconds each. My first attempt. Light pollution was pretty bad though

M83 - Southern Spiral

Taken with the ED80 - 3 RAW subs at 600 seconds each. These are the longest exposures I've taken yet. LP is bad though and it shows in all of my galaxy images. They will also benefit from better scale - must try at f10

NGC 2070 - Tarantula Nebula

Taken with the ED80 - 9 RAW subs at 300 seconds each.

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Horsehead and Alnitak Region

Taken with the ED80 - 5 RAW subs at 500 seconds each.

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 33% of Full Scale          

M20 Trifid Nebula

Taken with the ED80 - 9 RAW subs at 400 seconds each. This is a reprocess of the original above.

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NGC 253

Taken with the ED80 - 6 RAW subs at 300 seconds each.

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This one was more noisy - I believe due to a 13.7v power supply I was using. Using a 12v supply seems to fix the problem.

M17 Swan Nebula

Taken with the ED80 - 5 RAW subs at 300 seconds each.

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M8 Lagoon Nebula

Taken with the ED80 - 5 RAW subs at 300 sec each

Reduced Scale   Original Scale

Processed in CCDStack with darks and some (not so good) flats. I've included reduced and full scale versions.