Atik Infinity Photos (April 6, 2018)

Introduction | Photos | References

On this page I present photos taken with the Atik Infinity camera on April 6, 2018.

 

Introduction

The following photos were my tenth attempt with the Atik Infinity camera.

Details

On April 6, 2018, the sky was clear again, so that I built up my Explorer 150PDS with GoTo mount. Aligning the mount with the StarSense module was successful, and I attached the Atik Infinity camera to the telescope and looked at the following deep sky objects: M 1, M 41, M 42/43, M 50, NGC 2264, Alnitak.

I do not present the Alnitak photo here, and the one of M 42/43 is less impressive than the previous attempts. Perhaps, Orion is already too low at the sky... At least, I am proud that I finally found M 1 (Crab Nebula).

This time, I was able to confirm M 41, M 50, and NGC 2264 in various ways (see the respective DSO pages), all other DSOs were free of doubt.

 

Photos

The following photos were taken with the Explorer 150PDS on the Star Discovery AZ GoTo mount (with StarSense module) and saved as 16-bit TIFF files.

         

M 1 (Taurus), unprocessed

  

Ditto, post-processed

  

Ditto, post-processed and noise removed

         

M 1 (Taurus), unprocessed

  

Ditto, post-processed

  

Ditto, post-processed and noise removed
         

M 41 (Canis Major), unprocessed

  

Ditto, post-processed

  

Ditto, post-processed and sharpened

         

M 41 (Canis Major), unprocessed

  

Ditto, post-processed

  

Ditto, post-processed and sharpened

   

M 42/43 (Orion), unprocessed

  

Ditto, post-processed

  

Ditto, post-processed and noise removed

         

M 50 (Monoceros), unprocessed

  

Ditto, post-processed

  

Ditto, post-processed and sharpened

   

NGC 2264 (Monoceros), unprocessed

  

Ditto, post-processed

  

Ditto, post-processed and sharpened

 

References

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