Category Archives: Sky 90 and SXVF-M25C

The Belt Stars of Orion

Sometimes, when all you want is an impactful star image – you find Nature conspires against you. The 3 bright stars running diagonally from bottom left to top right in this image are the Belt Stars of Orion. Bottom left … Continue reading

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A Star Reduction Reprocess of Mu Cephei

One of the brightest, reddest stars in the sky – the Garnet Star – Mu Cephei – in the nebula IC1396. A star reduced reprocess.

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Composite IC410 IC405

This is a composite image of the IC410/IC405 region taken using a Sky90 refractor with an M25C OSC CCD and a pair of Canon 200mm prime lenses with ASI 2600MC Pro OSC CMOS cameras. The Sky90 data was 5-hours and … Continue reading

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The Original Heart Nebula After Star Reduction

This is the original Parker/Carboni Heart nebula taken with a single Sky90 and M25C OSC CCD after star reduction has been applied.

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The Original M31 with Star Reduction

Well this is very interesting! Applying star reduction to the original Parker/Carboni M31 image, taken with a single Sky90 and M25C OSC CCD – brings out all the blue (hot young stars) which was not visible with all the stars … Continue reading

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The Belt Stars of Orion

Another star-reduced image of an oldie.

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Star reduced Horsehead and Belt Stars of Orion

The Horsehead nebula and the Belt Stars of Orion region. This is a 2-frame mosaic using a single Sky90 and a single M25C OSC CCD. H-alpha and OIII data was also included. Imaging time around 4-hours (or more) per frame. … Continue reading

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Star reduced Orion nebula region

A star reduced version of the old Sword of Orion data.

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Star reduced Jellyfish nebula

As the title says 🙂 

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Star reduced Veil nebula

Here is another reprocess using the star reducer – this time the Veil nebula in Cygnus. I have only just noticed that it is this object that Russ Croman has used to demo his StarXTerminator program. I can see why … Continue reading

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