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 Despite the high
            wind all day long, and poor seeing at night this image with the
            shorter focal length retains excellent sharpness and color detail
            because it simply cannot resolve the bad seeing. This is a great
            advantage on many nights here on the Mogollon Rim , and allows
            imaging on evenings which would other wise be fruitless with
            the larger instrument. This image is the very first guided image
            with the new Stellarvue, and stars appear sharp right to the
            edge.

            
The colors of the nebula
            recorded by the 10d are blue biased because of the standard IR
            blocking filter inside the camera. However, we can partially
            compensate for this in Photoshop by balancing the hue of the
            magentas to include more red.

            
Processing: Seven layers
            of different exposures were combined in Photoshop using layer
            masks and the eraser tool. The final image was set in the proper
            saturation with the amazing saturation curves tool in Pix Insight.

Instrument:  Stellarvue SV80S Refractor 
w/.8x TR2008 Field Flattener, EFR = 80mm f/4.74 @ 379mm FL
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
Camera:  Canon 10D @ ISO800
Exposure:  10m+5m+1m+30s+15s
Filters:  Standard IR Block
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  3/10, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature:  30F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS2, Maxim DL, PixInsight, Raw Essentials
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