• Date - August 2009
• Telescope - Takahashi BRC-250
• Mount - Paramount ME
• Camera - Starlight Xpress SXVF H36
• Exposures - 18x10 minutes each for Ha, OIII and SII guided with Starlight Xpress lodestar
• Acquisition software - Maxim DL
• Guiding software - Maxim DL
• Processing software - Photoshop CS2

This was taken over two nights and is part of a project to do the three elements of the Veil nebula in narrowband

• Date - November 2009
• Telescope - Takahashi FSQ106ED
• Mount - Paramount ME
• Camera - Starlight Xpress SXVF H36
• Exposures - 2x20 minutes with Astrodon 5nm Ha filter autoguided with Lodestar using dithering
• Acquisition software - Maxim DL
• Guiding software - Maxim DL
• Processing software - Photoshop CS2

This was first light with the Takahashi FSQ and new filter wheel and filters, unfortunately the weather turned for the worse so only two subframes were collected

• Date - February 2010
• Telescope - Takahashi FSQ106ED
• Mount - Paramount ME
• Camera - Starlight Xpress SXVF H36
• Exposures - 6x20 minutes each for Ha and OIII and 3x20 min for SII auto guided with Lodestar and OAG using dithering
• Acquisition software - Maxim DL
• Guiding software - Maxim DL
• Processing software - Photoshop CS2

Will try and get more data especially for the SII channel, using the OAG seems to have resolved the issues I was having with star trailing due to differential flexure

• Date - September 2010
• Telescope - Takahashi FSQ106ED f5
• Mount - Paramont ME
• Camera - Starlight Xpress SXVF H9
• Exposure - 4x30 minutes with 5nm Ha filter auto guided by lodestar camera and OAG using dithering
• Acquisition software - Maxim DL
• Guiding softare - Maxim DL
• Processing software - Photoshop CS2

First use of 30 minute sub frames

It was suggested to me by a good friend of mine Richard Crisp, that I should try using the SII data from my widefield image of this subject that I took last year with the H36 camera so taht is what I did

• Date - September 2011
• Telescope - Takahashi FSQ106ED
• Mount - Paramount ME
• Camera - FLI Microline 8300 at -35c
• Exposures - 8x30 minutes with Ha filter auto guided by Lodestar and OAG using dithering
• Acquisition software - Maxim DL5
• Guiding software - Maxim DL5
• Processing software Photoshop CS5

This is first light with the new camera