The California Nebula and the constellation Vulpecula

[twade]

To all,

The September New Moon was good to me.

The first image is a single 60-minute exposure of the California nebula taken with Kodak E-200 pushed 1-stop.  It was imaged with a Pentax 67 camera using the 300mm F/4.0 EDIF lens wide-open.

2400x1920:
   http://tinyurl.com/2t7ana
1600x1280:
   http://tinyurl.com/2kr4bh


The second image is of the constellation Vulpecula.  Again, it was taken with the same gear and film mentioned above.  It is also a single 60-minute exposure.  According to Registar, the field contains over 225,000 stars.  I highly recommend viewing the higher resolution 1920x2400 version which is approximately 5.5 megabytes.  It just begins to show how many stars were captured in this field of view.

1920x2400:
   http://tinyurl.com/3a8sbl
1280x1600:
   http://tinyurl.com/39uu9x

As usual, most of the processing was done in PixInsight Standard (i.e., flat-fielding, neutralizing background, and noise reduction).  Some minor curve adjustments and the web versions were done in Photoshop CS3.

Enjoy,

Wade

[Maxi]

Hello twade.

The images I see quite well, trying in the constellation of stars not saturate these pictures, but because in the end the details are lost.

I am also fond constellations,:

http://www.telefonica.net/web2/astromodelismo/Web%20Astronomia/Web%20enlazables/Fotos%20propias/Constelaciones/index.htm

Sincerely, Maxi