Date: August 27, 2007

Location: "My-Spot" Observatory, West Bloomfield, Michigan (4.2 ZLM, ~3.0 due to full moon)

Exposure(s): 72 x 45 Seconds at ISO800

Camera: Hap Griffin Modified Canon Rebel XT (350D)

Equipment: 10" f/10 Meade LX6 OTA with UHTC optics and Lumicon GEG @ f/7.5, Losmandy G-11

Guiding: ST-4 (A3's) on ETX90 OTA

Software & Processing: RAW image files were dark frame & background subtracted and converted to Tif files using my RawHide RAW file converter. The Tifs were then aligned and stacked using Registar 1.0.7 and then processed using Picture Window Pro. The full moon was only 27° south of M15, as a result, subframe exposure time was greatly limited due to skyglow.

Date: Sept 7, 2002

Exposure(s): 3x 20 Min 3x 7 Min

Film: Kodak Royal Gold 400 (new)

Equipment: 10" f/10 Meade LX6 OTA with UHTC optics and Lumicon GEG @ f/7.5, Losmandy G-11

Guiding: ST-4 (A3's)

Hardware & Software: Minolta Scan Elite II film scanner, Hamrick Software's VueScan, The scanned images were color corrected, processed, and cropped using Picture Window, and then digitally stacked using Registar.

Info: M15, is a small tight Globular Cluster. Click here for my older image of M15.

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