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Observing Highlights

Northern Star Trails - Feb 17, 2010

This image is a combination of 30 second images taken continuously all night from Yellow Point Lodge on Vancouver Island. The date was 2010-02-17 during the Vancouver Olympics so the ski regions and city lights show up in the lower right. Many lights from boats and airplanes can also be seen.

Northern Stars Overnight on Vimeo - a time lapse video using the same still photos.

This image was created using my Ha image of February 17, 2010 as a luminance layer and my color image of January 20, 2008 for the RGB layers. I used ImagesPlus 3.50a to align, scale rotate, split LRGB and combine the Luminance (Ha) and RGB channels. Photoshop and Noise Ninja were used to finish the image.

My first attempt at enhancing a LRGB image with hydrogen alpha through the VCO's TeleVue NP127is & a SBIG ST-2000XM CCD camera using LRGBHa Astrodon filters.

The weather finally cooperated for Victoria Centre members, so they could use the 1.8m Plaskett telescope at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory to acquire photos of a wide variety of objects. Thanks to Dave Balam,  our very capable telescope operator, it appears everyone had their chance to image some of the objects from their lists before the high haze took its toll on the seeing. Observing log (text file).

The Orion Nebula is a lovely sight visually and is strikingly beautiful when imaged in the light from the rich field of excited hydrogen gas that is feeding star formation in its core. Taken from Yellow Point Lodge, on southern Vancouver Island.

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