l folks,
Ken Thomason and I are sitting here at the Centennial Observatory, grabbing some images of M13, the globular cluster in Hercules. Doing astro-photography is a lot harder than I originally thought!
Currently we are using a MaximDL4 software with an Apogee 47E CCD camera on a 24 inch research grade telescope made by DFM Engineering, Inc. We do have MaximDL5, but we have not had the chance nor time to sit down and really play with it.
The parameters we are setup with are:
CLEAR - 40sec Exposure - 25 images
RED - 48sec Exposure - 10 Images
GREEN - 60sec Exposure - 10 Images
BLUE - 108sec Exposure - 10 Images
Combining the upload time, this project should take us just over an hour to capture, and maybe another half-hour to compile all the images together in order to obtain our final image.
If it turns out halfway decent, I'll post the image later!
It is now.... later! And here is our final image.
Addendum to Post: It is now 2:30AM here at the observatory and the skies have been WONDERFULLY clear all night. We had campus security kill the lights a couple of hours ago, and the area luminescence dropped almost to ZERO! W00t!!
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