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Transit of the Asteroid Ceres & the Lagoon Nebula | Parks Squyres

By: Editors of Sky & Telescope August 10, 2010 0

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Photographer:

Parks Squyres

Location of Photo:

SaddleBrooke, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

06.04.2010 00:00

Equipment:

11" Celestron Telescope Additional Equipment HyperStar 3 Baader UHC-S Filter Camera Canon/Hutech 350 D Software DeepSkyStacker, Gimp2.6, Adobe Photo Shop Elements 7, and Paint Shop Pro 10

Description:

The images were made over a peroid of 3 hours each on June 3rd & June 4th using approx. 500 short 10 second exposures on both nights. The seeing was not as good on the 4th so the images of Ceres are slightly larger.