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NGC 6384 (Spiral Galaxy)
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Image Details:
- Camera: Canon Digital Rebel (300D)
- Mount: Celestron AS-GT
- Scope: Celestron C8-N (8" f/5 Newtonian)
- Configuration: Prime Focus
- Additional Optics: n/a (Prime)
- Filter: None
- Effective Focal Length: 1000mm
- Effective Focal Ratio: f/5
- Exposure: 15 x 4min @ ISO 400
- Total Exposure: 1hrs, 0min
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- Date: 8/11/2004, ~12:30am PDT
- Location: Saratoga, CA, USA
- Acquisition: DSLRfocus
- Focus: DSLRFocus
- Dithering: None
- Guiding: Manual through Orion ST80 w/ Celestron 2x "Kit" Barlow
Processing:
- IRIS: Dark subtraction, flat field, registration, Kappa-Sigma stacking
- Photoshop: Noise reduction, cropping, JPG conversion
Image Description:
NGC 6384 is a small, faint spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ophiuchus. This image could have used a lot more exposure time and also should have been shot at a higher ISO setting, since this image shows signs of quantization noise. You live, you learn. North is up.