NGC 3079

Object

Equipment

Telescope: 12" F5.3 Newton
Mount: EQ6 Skyscan
Camera: SBIG ST7e ABG
Filters: none

Circumstances

Date: 28 January 2006
Location: Steenbrugge
Weather: Clear sky, 16°C
Temperature CCD: -30°C

Technique

Technique: B/W
Exposure: 87 minutes
Processing:
Subframes of 3 min (29x) Flat, dark bias automatic subtraction
Aligned en add-combined in ccdsoft
Deconvolution of 4 iterations in CCDsharp
20% DDP applied
Levels, blur and Unsharp mask in Photoshop
Small noise reduction in NeatImage

Comments

The seeing was very bad. I could capture almost no detail.