remote imaging at blue mountain
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Remote Imaging at Blue Mountain. Dick Steinberg DVAA Meeting January 4, 2013. Astro -Imaging at Blue Mountain. Site, telescopes and cameras Wide-field color (106mm Takahashi FSQ + SSPro ) The moon (~1 L s or 4x10 -14 Mly ) Milky Way nebulae and clusters (~10 -3 Mly ) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Dick SteinbergDVAA Meeting
January 4, 2013
Remote Imaging at Blue Mountain
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Astro-Imaging at Blue Mountain
Site, telescopes and camerasWide-field color (106mm Takahashi FSQ +
SSPro)The moon (~1 L s or 4x10-14 Mly)Milky Way nebulae and clusters (~10-3 Mly) Nearby galaxies (~10 Mly)
Deep monochrome (317mm Hyperion + U16M)
Strongly-lensed galaxy (z=0.38 & 2.73 4.3 & 12 Gly)
Quadruply-imaged quasar (z~3 )
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Blue Mountain Vista Observatory
On the Colosimo property in New Ringgold PA
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Initial Installation at BMVO, Jan 2010
Thanks to Don D’Egidio and Frank Colosimo
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Initial Installation at BMVO, Jan 2010
Don and Dick
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The Telescopes
Takahashi FSQ-106N quadruplet fluorite APO
refractor 106mm f/5
Starizona Hyperion corrected Cassegrain reflector 317mm f/8
70 mm image circle
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3 scopes, 3 cameras 1 mount on Paramount ME at BMVO, New Ringgold, PA - July 2010
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The Camera
Orion StarShoot Pro v1- One-shot Color
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Orion StarShoot Pro v1
One-shot color camera, Bayer filter matrix3032x2016 pixels (total 6.1 MP), each 7.8 x
7.8 micronsChip size 25.1x17.6 mmUnregulated thermoelectric coolingFOV w FSQ106 – 2.5 x 1.7 degreesPlate scale – 3.01 arc sec/pixelUsed for wide-field color imagesLimiting magnitude ~16
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Two-day old Moon
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M8, the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius
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M20, the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius
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The California Nebula in Perseus, NGC1499
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The Pleiades, M45
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M42, the Orion Nebula
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Barnard 33, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion(part of IC434)
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The Rosette Nebula in MonocerosNGC 2237
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M31, the Andromeda Galaxy