Re: GSSP 2009 - Rho Ophiuchus region image

Yeah I was gonna ding Jeff about not getting the entire pipe nebula in the photo. :D But used it as my wallpaper on the Mac away... Hope thats okay Jeff?

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From: "Alsing, Paul" <palsing@No-Spam>
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Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 9:22:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TAC] GSSP 2009 - Rho Ophiuchus region image

Here is my all-time favorite essay about this area, by Brian Skiff...

http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/colors.htm

... along with terrific photo by another friend of ours...

\Paul A

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:21 PM
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Subject: [TAC] GSSP 2009 - Rho Ophiuchus region image

So.. I'm a bit slow/lazy with the image processing for the GSSP 2009
data...

... But I did get a couple done last night...

Here's a Rho Ophiuchus nebula region, with the dark lanes and the feet
of
the "horse"...

http://www.pbase.com/jeffcrilly/image/114490710/large

(full size bits are here...
http://www.pbase.com/jeffcrilly/image/114490710/original.jpg
)

(This was imaged with the QHY8 6mp cmos camera using a canon 70-200mm
f4L
camera lens at 70mm.
I believe this was about 120 minutes total exposure time.
Guiding was done w/ a DSI mono camera on the FSQ106.)

Jeff

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