Peyton Observatory Gallery

All images taken with the 12\" with the SBIG ST-8E. All images displayed on this page (unless otherwise noted) have been binned by a factor of 4, so pixels are 2.43 arcsec. (The entire frame is 15 x 10 arcmin.) Images are hyperlinked to originals which are unbinned (or binned as originally acquired as the case may be).

M57     2004-10-01
RGB: (4,4,5) x 5m
M74     2004-09-21
92 x 10s
M33     2004-09-21
40 x 15s
M74     2004-09-22
4 x 2m
Used autoguider for first time. Also corrected orientation, and used flat fielding for first time.
M74     2004-09-22
1 x 30m
Used autoguider for first time. Also corrected orientation, and used flat fielding for first time.
M92     2004-09-23
1 x 10m
Demo of why it's important to get flat-fielding right.
M15     2004-09-23
4 x 10m
Log scaling.
M74     2004-09-23
7 x 10m
Saturn     2004-09-23
9 x 5s
Saturn, not binned, pixels = .609
Albireo     2004-10-01
LRGB: (16,8,8,23) x .2s
Not binned, pixels = 0.609"
M76     2004-10-01
LRGB: (2,1,1,2) x 10m
M42     2006-03-03
LRGB 8x10s (9 frames each)
SN2006X     2006-02-14
8 x 5m
Supernova 2006X in M100 that went off in celebration of Bohdan Paczynski's birthday. I'm not sure why there's a streak of light in the upper left (this is flat-fielded). This thumbnail is binned by 2, not 4.