Cosmic Photons Astrophotography : Northern Galactic Image of the Month

Every day our eyes catch the light of our memories – time spent with family, the journey to work, a special holiday, a beautiful sunset or a dark starlit night. Each image captured is a picture drawn in light – a photograph: only to be lost in our minds or forever forgotten. Nearly two hundred years ago a small group of amateur scientists achieved what had eluded mankind for centuries – the ability to capture a permanent record of an image seen by their own eyes – a moment in time frozen onto a surface. They had discovered Photography. They were the ‘Catchers of the Light’.

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Monday, September 5, 2011

Sharpless 171 Hubble palette

Tricolor Emission Line Image

Instruments and exposure data:

W.O FLT110 with dedicated TMB field flattener

FeatherTouch 3'' focuser

Starizona MicroTouch autofocuser

W.O ZS80 ED
SBIG ST10XME CFW9
Meade DSI

Filters:

SII 8nm Baader Planetarium

Ha 5nm Astrodon

OIII 8.5nm Baader Planetarium

Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro

SII :30*15min bin1x1
Ha :30*15min bin1x1

OIII:30*15min bin1x1

Total exposure time:22h30min

Anacortes Image of the Day 19/09/2011

Northern Galactic Image of the Month Award for September 2011

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