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Open Cluster
C1222+263


My very very first digital deep sky photo:

My first tricolor star image, starcluster c1222 and c2632001
Date : 2001
Time (UT) : 20:00 ??
Mount : SkyWatcher EQ4, modified central support
Lens/telescope : Nikon 50mm f/1.4 (set to f/2.0)
Corrector/Barlow : none
Field (FOV) : 12x12 degree, before cropping
Filter : Red=25, Green=58 and Blue=47B filter
Camera : SpectraSource Instruments HPC-1, CCD 1024x1024
Camera from Stockholm University
Exp. time : red 74x15s, green 74x20s, blue 74x30s, 3x8x8 dark, 3x8 flat+3x8x8 dark.
Small drift under exposures (see the edges) to get rid of those bad pixels, no IR-filter. Photos taken under two separate nights.
Image process tool : Matlab, All image processing done by my own developed Matlab routines.
Processing : resize, level, cal dark. Image color calibrated with G2-stars as references (our sun is a G2-star).
Weather : clouds
Site : Sweden Midsommarkransen 4:th floor. Bortle class 9
Comment : This is my very very first digital deep sky photo. A lot of galaxies can be seen, those galaxies with a lot of dust is colored purple because the lack of a blocking Infra red filter, dust radiate in IR.
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