I attended the Cherry Springs Star Party 6/6 - 6/9/13. Actually arrived Tuesday night, 2 days before the start of the star party. Tuesday had the best skies of all of the evenings I was there. Wednesday night, clouds rolled in, and it rained all the way thru Friday. Saturday night the sky was clear again, but the humidity caused a very heavy dew to form.
While I was there, I bought my first real CCD, an Orion Starshoot G3. I actually wanted a small chip for smaller objects. Although I tried it out Saturday night, and was cut short due to the extreme moisture, I was able to shoot the Ring Nebula thru a red filter. I only shot 5 frames, and I was shocked as to how quiet the image was. Although the image is monochrome, the detail was quite good.
All images were shot with the Orion 8", f/5. This image of M57 were shot with the Starshoot G3 thru a red filter. Exposure length was 180 seconds. This was shot on Saturday night, 6/9/13.
The Tuesday night images were all shot with the unmodified T3, as I left the power supply at home for the 300D.
M101, an object that I have problems with at home due to the light pollution, came out much better when I was able to use 5 minute, iso-1600 frames.
Messier 4. The following star clusters are too low in the southern sky for me to image at home, so I took advantage of the dark sky and low horizon to capture a few of the Messier clusters in Scorpius and Sagittarius. This is 6 - 60 sec exposures at iso 1600.
After capturing M4, I went over to M6. This is only a stack of half a dozen 1 minute exposures.
M7 is right near M6, so I thought I'd get it next. 4 - 60 sec frames, iso-1600.
Lastly, I shot M22. This consists of a dozen 1 minute frames, also at iso-1600.
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