The Rosette Nebula

 
Image The Rosette Nebula
Catalog 20080303
Telescope William Optics 110mm f/5.95 APO Refractor telescope on
observatory mounted Losmandy G-11 equatorial mount with Gemini 4.
Guiding Autoguided with SBIG 402 on Orion ST-80 f/5 guidescope with CCDOps.
Camera

Central DS Cooled Canon EOS 350D Digital - ~2°C.

Exposures 12 x 6-minute exposures @ ISO 400.
Total Exposure time 72-minutes.
Filter/equipment Baader Coma Corrector.
2" Tele extender.
Processing Darks, bias and flat-fielded with ImagesPlus,
post processing in Photoshop.
Notes Focused with DSLR Focus.
Cool night ~15°C. Clear but average seeing. Guidestar bloating.

(C) Copyright 2008 Paul Mayo.
paulm@skylab.com.au

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