February 2013 Contest Images

[Javio]

The February edition of the 2013 PixInsight Monthly Astrophotography Contest is open. Check the contest rules and send your images until February 20th. Please use this post ONLY to submit your images.

Good luck!

[Josh Lake]

The Flaming Star and Friends

Astrobin Link

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.

[Graham]

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

[Alejandro Tombolini]

On december we travel to La Hacienda Los Andes in Chile

Details of the trip in Proxima Sur

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.

[Riccardo A. Ballerini]

one of the best whitchead ...ever!
congrats!