Danella Photographic

Astro photography may be a great way to broaden your image making horizons.

Thanks to the generousity of astro photographer Garvis DiLauro, an image of Deep Sky Object “Messier 13″ is posted below. M13 is a Globular Cluster some 25,000 light years away. A light year is approximately 5.8 trillion miles. There are an estimated one million stars to the M13 cluster.

Here’s the related photographic data:

Date: Monday June 18, 2007
Time: 11:30 PM EST
Temperature: 65F
Telescope: Celestron C6-SGT
Telescope Mount: CG-5 Equatorial GoTo
Unguided
Celestron 6.3 Corrector/Reducer
Nikon D80 (unmod)
Wireless Remote for Nikon D80
STI Stiletto IV Focuser
ISO setting 800
3 X 15 second pics
10 X 30 second pics
3 X 1 minute pics
Stacked and processed using ImagesPlus v2.82
Final processing completed in Paint Shop Pro 8

Thanks again to Garvis DiLauro for sharing this image. For more information about astronomy and astro photography check out www.mvas-ny.org/

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