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Subject: Orion sword mosaic -- 6 panels (includes existing M42 shot + existing HH shot + 4 others)

Image FOV = 6.62 degrees by 4.78 degrees (397 minutes by 287 minutes) -- approximate

Image Scale = 20 arc-second/pixel

Date: 2006/12/02, 2006/12/30, 2007/01/10, 2007/01/16, 2007/01/17, 2007/02/08, 2007/02/09, 2007/02/15, 2007/02/16

Exposure: 39x600s (M42 area) + 40x600s (Horsehead area) + 66x600s (rest) = 145x600s = 24h10m total exposure -- ISO800, f/4.8

Filter: Baader 7nm H-alpha filter

Camera: Hutech-modified Canon 30D

Telescope: SV80S 80mm f/6 + TV TRF-2008 0.8X reducer/flattener = 384mm FL, f/4.8

Mount: Losmandy G-11

Guiding: ST-402 autoguider and SV66 guidescope. MaximDL autoguiding software using 1-second guide exposures

Processing: Raw conversion and calibration with ImagesPlus (dark and bias frames only, no flat frames); Aligning and combining with Registar; Initial levels adjustment (gamma=2.5) and cropping in PhotoShop CS and CS4. Then mosaicing with AutoPano Pro, more levels adjustment, downsampling, and JPEG conversion with PhotoShop CS4.

Remarks: temperatures at end: 25F, 24F, 19F, 25F, 27F, 23F, 23F, 20F, 25F. Taken from a light-polluted location (perhaps 20.25 SQM reading, average)
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Orion Sword Mosaic

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