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selection of basic deep sky pictures with the GSTAR-EX integrating video camera. The first section are from semi-dark skies near a
large town while the later images are from extreme light polluted skies in Sydney. They
simply reveal just how well frame accumulation video cameras can perform in such
situations.
Semi-Dark Sky
Images
Light Polluted
Images
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| Images from Light
Polluted Sky of Sydney |
M42 (Orion Nebula) GSTAR-EX video camera. Telescope:
254mm Newtonian @ f/5. Stack of only 500 LRGB images.
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| M42 - False Colour - GSTAR-EX video camera and 254mm Newtonian @ f/5. Red channel is with 1-micron filter, Green channel
with visual/green filter and Blue channel with U (ultraviolet) filter and IR block. see animation 
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| NGC
104 - GSTAR-EX video camera. Telescope: 254mm Newtonian @
f/5. Stack of only 25 images. 
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NGC 5128 - GSTAR-EX video camera. Telescope: ProStar 127mm
refractor and focal reducer.
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| M1
- Crab Nebula - GSTAR-EX video camera. Telescope: 254mm Newtonian @ f/5. LRGB image
stack of only 200 (L) 100 each RGB images. 
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| NGC1617 in
Dorado. GSTAR-EX video camera. Telescope: 254mm Newtonian @ f/5. Stack of only 500 images. 
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M83 GSTAR-EX video camera and RGB filters.
Telescope:127mm refractor.
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| M104 Sombrero
Galaxy captured with GSTAR-EX video camera and RGB filters. Telescope: 254mm Newtonian @
f/5. 100 images were stacked for each colour channel. 
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| NGC5128 (Centaurus-A) - GSTAR-EX video camera and RGB filters. Telescope:
254mm Newtonian @ f/5. 400 images were stacked for each colour channel. 
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| NGC4565 Unfiltered image made from 550 individual video
frames. GSTAR-EX video camera. Last
quater Moon was in the sky during this exposure.
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| M20 Trifid
Nebula - LRGB image made from 500 lum exposures
and 200 each for RGB filters using GSTAR-EX video integrating video camera. 
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| M57 Ring Nebula - LRGB image made from 300 individual
video frames per channel. GSTAR-EX video integrating video camera and RGB filters. Manual
unsharp mask applied. 
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| NGC 253 - GSTAR-EX video camera LRGB
image. Telescope: 254mm Newtonian using Vixen 0.6X focal reducer. 250 stacked RGB video
frames and 500 unfltered images. Processed with Registax and Adobe Photoshop. 
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| Keyhole
(Carina Neb.) GSTAR-EX
video camera and RGB filters. Telescope: 254mm Newtonian @ f/5. 300 stacked video frames
processed with Registax and Adobe Photoshop. 
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| NGC3242 - Ghost of Jupiter GSTAR-EX video camera and RGB filters. Telescope:
254mm Newtonian @ f/10.
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| M66 - Mintron accumulating video camera and LRGB filters.
Telescope: 254mm Newtonian @ f/5. 
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| M65 - GSTAR-EX
video camera and LRGB filters. Telescope: 254mm Newtonian @ f/5. 
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| M27 Dumbell Nebula - LRGB image made from 250 individual
video frames per channel. Mintron GSTAR-EX integrating video camera and RGB filters. 
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| M17 -
Captured with a Mintron
ExView integrating video camera using RGB filters. Image is comprised of 30 stacked 128X
accumulated images for each colour channel with subtracted dark frame taken from suburban
light polluted skies at the focus of a 254mm f/5 Newtonian. 
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| M8 and the hourglass planetary nebula (near centre)
captured with a GSTAR-EX integrating video camera and RGB filters. 
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NGC
1566 - GSTAR-EX
integrating video camera and RGB filters. Image is comprised of 300 stacked 128X
accumulated images for each colour channel with subtracted dark frames.
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NGC
2070 Tarantula Nebula
GSTAR-EX integrating video camera and LRGB image. Comprised of 250 stacked maximum
integration time images for each colour channel with subtracted dark frames. Processed in
Registax and PhotoShop
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IC434 Unfiltered images made from 150
individual video frames. Captured from Sydndey light polluted skies with GSTAR-EX
integrating video camera, 10-inch Newtonian and Vixen 0.6X focal reducer.
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| Check out some
great integrated video images taken with the GSATR-EX camera at Steve Quirks website http://www.hwy.com.au/~sjquirk/gstar/gstar.html |
