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Title: February 2013 Contest Images
Post by: Javio on 2013 February 07 12:12:16
The February edition of the 2013 PixInsight Monthly Astrophotography Contest is open. Check the contest rules (http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=3098.0) and send your images until February 20th. Please use this post ONLY to submit your images.

Good luck!
Title: Re: February 2013 Contest Images
Post by: Josh Lake on 2013 February 10 17:32:50
The Flaming Star and Friends

Astrobin Link (http://www.astrobin.com/full/32252/?mod=none)

7 hours of H-alpha, 1.6 hours of LRGB apiece

FSQ-106ED + SBIG STL-11000

Standard processing, careful Ha-LRGB combination to balance saturation with rich detail in H-a. Range selection used to make masks of background, main objects, and faint ISM for separate processing.
Title: Re: February 2013 Contest Images
Post by: Graham on 2013 February 13 01:04:46
47 Tuc/NGC104

http://www.pbase.com/image/148743925

Telescope: Takahashi TSA 120

Guide Scope: Orion 80 ST

Camera: QHY9 Mono @ -20c

Guide Camera: Meade DSI Pro II

Mount: EQ6 Pro

Mount Control: EQASCOM

Focusing: RoboFocus

Bahtinov Mask: Yes

Capture Software: MaxIm DL 5

Calibration and Stacking Software: PixInsight

Processing Software: PixInsight

L=8X300, R=4x240, G=4x240, B=4x240

Ha= x , SII= x , OIII= x .

Binning: 1x1

Total Image Time: 88 minutes

Light Box by Exfso
Title: Re: February 2013 Contest Images
Post by: Alejandro Tombolini on 2013 February 13 16:37:20
On december we travel to La Hacienda Los Andes (http://www.haciendalosandes.com/en/the-hacienda-los-andes.html) in Chile

Details of the trip in Proxima Sur (http://www.proximasur.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/en-el-mejor-cielo.html)

It was an excelent time for astrofotography, shared with José Joaquín Pérez, Ezequiel Bellocchio, Daniel Verschatse, Adriana Fernández, Sergio De la Fuente and soon, Leonardo Julio and Carlos Milovic
and we took this picture.

Object: IC 2118
Camera: Canon 5DIII - Filtro Type I
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX - Longitud focal 530 mm -  f/5
Images: 17 x 20 minutos, 10 x 1 minuto, 10 x 15 segundos. ISO 1600
Total time: 5 hours y 40 minutes
Programa: PixInsight

I am sorry that there are not details of processing this time, but I did not save all the steps for publishing.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NKRrEZBLJkU/URwvvYEX-5I/AAAAAAAAKRI/VeHihh5f4bY/s1600/Proxima+Sur+IC+2118+1100x1600.jpg)
Title: Re: February 2013 Contest Images
Post by: Riccardo A. Ballerini on 2013 June 03 13:39:00
one of the best whitchead ...ever!
congrats!