BIG DIFFERENCE!!!!
Jan 20, 2014 15:37:12 #
Here is something that I did several years ago that might be of interest. I took an image of the Egg Nebula (aka CRL 2688), using a 14-inch Meade LX200 at f/10. Camera was an SBIG 1001 ccd camera that has a chip of 25x25mm, quite large but the pixels were also large at 24 microns, hence it was a light bucket suitable for getting really faint objects but not much on the resolution side. However I was surprised at how much it did record when it was compared to a Hubble photograph of the same object. There is still a very large difference in the two images but it goes to show just how much can be recorded with amateur equipment.
Exposure was 5 minutes taken Nov. 11, 2004.
Exposure was 5 minutes taken Nov. 11, 2004.
Jan 21, 2014 03:16:52 #
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