Caldwell 58 / NGC3242 / Ghost of Jupiter Image by Bob Forgiel  |
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March 31, 2009
Very short 2 second exposures so not to blow out any detail in this small target. Atmospheric conditions were not so favorable so the best 40 of 300 frames taken were stacked. Image taken with the 8” LX200 at f10. Camera was the DSI II color camera so all color channels are shot simultaneously. The Meade capture software calculates a synthetic luminescence layer from the RGB data. The Standard Meade software was used for the post process stacking and enlarged with the Drizzle function. The Fits Liberator plug-in was used to import the fits files into Photoshop CS4 for final processing of the LRGB layers.
