M33 in a different light

 

 

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Rosette Nebula taken with a Hyperstar 3 and Canon 450D

 
 

Using an Hydrogen Alpha filter on the camera will bring out detail that the eye is not able to see visually. This picture is in the native color format of the camera.

Rosette taken with a Hyperstar 3 and Canon 450D

 
 

Using an Hydrogen Alpha filter will bring out detail that the eye is not able to see visually. This detail can be applied to an LRGB image to produce more detail in color pictures.

M33 taken with a Hyperstar 3 and Canon 450D

J D Maddy has teamed up with Gerald Madero to start taking and processing gigabytes of data. The short exposure times of the Hyperstar allows for more picture taking and less time in the observatory taking pictures. Of course, Jerry's time on the computer processing all the data is increasing!
     
 

After stacking 30 exposures with Deep Sky Stacker and processing with Photo Shop, the results are obvious. This is 15 minutes worth of exposures that without the Hyperstar would have take hours to do.

     
     
     
     
  Another Cygnus wonder, this planetary nebula is known as the Dumbbell Nebula, or M27. This is one exposure through the Hyperstar 3 and processed by Jerry in Photoshop.
  Yet another planetary nebula caught with the Hyperstar 3. This is NGC7293, also known and the Helix Nebula. One of the largest nebula, but, very faint to observe. This is a stack of 20 images using Deep Sky Stacker and processed using Photoshop.
     
  M31, the Andromeda Galaxy is one of our nearest neighboring galaxies. It lies about 2.5 Million light years away. Also in the picture are M110 (bottom) and M32 (left of center), more satellite galaxies.
  The Double Cluster, NGC 869 and NGC 884 are naked eye clusters in Perseus. This cluster is best seen in binoculars as it covers quite an area of the sky. Only the lowest powers are used with telescopes to view this object and it is still tough to see the whole extent of the clusters.
     
  The Rosette Nebula is located in the constellation of Monoceros, The Unicorn.
     

 

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