[ATMoB-discuss] First photo from C14/ST7 - reprocessed

[Bruce Berger]

So that's the name of that galaxy!

I can actually bring out the distinct spiral arms of this galaxy in the
histogram, but that messes up M57. There's a better picture of his same
field on the web at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ssc2005-07a.jpg.

And Mario, if you look at the NASA picture linked above, you can see the
same unresolved double, just below 1296.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Halstead [mailto:rhh at curl.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:33 AM
To: Bruce Berger
Cc: atmob-discuss at atmob.org
Subject: Re: [ATMoB-discuss] First photo from C14/ST7 - reprocessed

Bruce Berger wrote:

>I took advice from this group and re-processed the images last night.
>
>I did dark & bias reduction in CCDSoft for each individual image, then 
>aligned and combined. After that there was some very minor histogram 
>adjustment with Photoshop CS2. I think you'll agree that this 2nd 
>composite is quite an improvement over the first. If this is what a 
>'beginner' can do, I can't wait to get some more time and images under my
belt.
>

Very impressive!  It looks like you have also recorded the 15th magnitude
galaxy IC 1296 as a faint diffuse glow in the lower left-hand corner of your
image.

-Bert