RC Optical Systems 12.5 inch (0.32 meter) f/9 Ritchey-Chrétien

Paramount ME

SBIG STL-11000M w/ FW8 Filter Wheel, Astrodon Gen 2 Filters

3/14/2010 to 3/20/2010

Lum            360 min (24 x 15 min, bin 1x1)

RGB           360 min (12 x 10 min, bin 2x2)

Ha             No Ha Taken Yet

CCDStack for calibration, deconvolution, data rejection, and combine

Mirametrics for image registration

PixInsight for HDR Lum work

Photoshop CS4 for all other work

Bob Franke’s eXcalibrator for RGB color calibration

First Light Image for the RCOS

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Image with SDSS NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database: Galaxy filter enabled

6949 Galaxies in the NED plate

6232 Galaxies matched

Brightest Plate Magnitude: 9.1g

Dimmest Plate Magnitude: 27.5g SDSS J122054.56+471332.7

Average Plate Magnitude: 22.26g

Image Limiting Magnitude: ~23.4g

Click Here for the complete galaxy list.

The NED Plate seemed to be missing a rectangular swath of data on the right side of M106.

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