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Mars by Maurizio Di Sciullo on April 2, 1999. Excelsior Optics E-258
10" (25 cm) f/8 Newtonian using eyepiece projection @ f/48 Starlight Xpress
HX-516 CCD camera, True Technologies Dichroic Filters + IR block. No dark
frame, flat fielding or bias correction applied. Camera operated in binned
mode. |
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Mars by Maurizio Di Sciullo on April 3, 1999. Excelsior Optics E-258
10" (25 cm) f/8 Newtonian using eyepiece projection @ f/48 Starlight Xpress
HX-516 CCD camera, True Technologies Dichroic Filters + IR block. No dark
frame, flat fielding or bias correction applied. Camera operated in binned
mode. Color processing using MaxIm DL. |

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Venus imaged using an ultraviolet filter on a Starlight Xpress HX516.
Taken by Maurizio Di Sciullo on May 27, 1999. Processed with Maximum Entropy
Deconvolution. |
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Mars before and after processing by Tom Richards. Combination of
four images, processed with maximum entropy deconvolution and FFT-filtered
unsharp mask. Taken with a SBIG Model ST-7 camera at 0.35 arc-seconds per pixel. |
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Solar prominences taken by Giovanni Dal Lago on April 19, 1998.
Pair shows before and after maximum entropy deconvolution. Takahashi CN-212
@ Cassegrain telescope f/12.4 stopped down to f/30, Daystar Model ATM 0.6A Hydrogen Alpha filter, SXL8
CCD. |
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Spectacular view of the Trapezium area of the Orion Nebula (M42)
by Giovanni Dal Lago. Celestron C-14 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain at f/7 and a DTA HiResII 1600 CCD camera.
Average of 16 8-minute exposures for luminance, 10 8-minute exposures for
red and green, and 14 12-minute exposures for blue. Processed with MaxIm
DL and Adobe Photoshop. |
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M82 by Giovanni Dal Lago. Processed three different ways to show
raw, processed with FFT high-pass filtering, and processed with Maximum
Entropy Deconvolution. |
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NGC891 by Tim Puckett. Color processing and automatic tricolor merge
with MaxIm DL. Apogee AP7, 10 minutes R/G/B 24" Ritchey Chretien reflector telescope working at F5. |
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NGC7331 by Tim Puckett. 60 cm F/8 Ritchey Chretien reflector w/Apogee
AP7 CCD. 10 Minutes R/G/B, 15 MaxEnt iterations on each component, automatic
tri-color merge. |
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Flame nebula (NGC 2024) by Giovanni Dal Lago. Before/after MaxEnt
pair. |
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Orion nebula (M42) by Paul Boltwood. Homemade CCD camera, before/after
MaxEnt pair. |
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Comet Hale-Bopp, six months before perihelion, by Doug George and
Peter Ceravolo. HiSIS-22 CCD camera (60 seconds unguided), auto-optimize
dark frame calibration, unsharp mask w/ geometric mean mask, gamma stretch. |