Jim Burnell's CCD Images - M27 Clicking on the image will display a full frame view.

 

Object: M27 (NGC6853)	The Dumbell Nebula - Planetary Nebula	Const.: Vulpecula
Camera: STL11000M	Scope: Tele Vue NP127is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): L:R:G:B	Exposure: 8x8m:4x8m:4x8m:4x8m	Color binned 2x2
The Dumbell Nebula, M27, a planetary nebula in Vulpecula. This color image is an LRGB composite of 8 eight minute exposures for the luminance channel and 4 eight minute exposures for each of the red, green and blue channels. The color filtered exposures were binned 2x2. The images were acquired using an STL11000M CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP127is 5" f/5.2 refractor. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected, stacked and color-balanced using AIP4WIN V2. This image has been cropped from the center of the full frame image with an original size of 4008x2672. Clicking on the image will show the full 11 megapixel frame. This image was automatically focused using the Tele Vue Focusmaster.

 

Object: M27 (NGC6853)	The Dumbell Nebula - Planetary Nebula	Const.: Vulpecula
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Tele Vue NP101	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα:R:G:B	Exposure: 8x4m:4x4m:4x4m:4x4m	blank
The Dumbell Nebula, M27, a planetary nebula in Vulpecula. This color image is an HaRGB composite of 8 four minute exposures through a hydrogen-alpha filter for the luminance channel and 4 four minute exposures for each of the red, green and blue channels. The images were acquired using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP101 4" f/5.4 refractor. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected, stacked and G2V-balanced using AIP4WIN V2. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040.

 

Hydrogen-α
Object: M27 (NGC6853)	The Dumbell Nebula - Planetary Nebula	Const.: Vulpecula
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen R200SS	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα	Exposure: 8x4m	TeleVue Paracorr
The Dumbell Nebula, M27 in Vulpecula. This image is a stack of 8 four minute exposures shot through a Hydrogen-alpha filter. The exposures were acquired using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP-101 4" f/5.4 refractor. The exposures were calibrated and stacked using AIP4WIN V2. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040.

 

Object: M27 (NGC6853)	The Dumbell Nebula - Planetary Nebula	Const.: Vulpecula
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen R200SS	Mount: Losmandy Titan
The Dumbell Nebula, M27, a planetary nebula in Vulpecula. This color image is an LRGB composite made from stacks using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian equipped with a Paracorr. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected, stacked and G2V-balanced using AIP4WIN. This image has been cropped down from its original size of 1360x1036.

 

Object: M27 (NGC6853)	The Dumbell Nebula - Planetary Nebula	Const.: Vulpecula
Camera: HX916	Scope: AP130	Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): L:R:G:B	Exposure: 47x60s:16x60s:16x60s:16x60s	Color channels binned 2x2
The Dumbell Nebula, M27, a planetary nebula in Vulpecula. This is an LRGB image generated using AIP4WIN. It illustrates the fully-automatic color balancing using G2V photometry on a solar-analog reference star using AIP4WIN's Color Calculator. The luminance channel is a stack of 47 one minute exposures, unbinned, using a 5" f/6 refractor. The R, G & B channels are each a stack of 16 one minute exposures using 2x2 binning. The images were combined into a color image using AIP4WIN's "G2V Color" option. This image has been cropped from its original size of 1166x868.

 

Object: M27 (NGC6853)	The Dumbell Nebula - Planetary Nebula	Const.: Vulpecula
Camera: HX916	Scope: AP130	Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 47x60s	blank
This is the luminance image used to generate the color image above. This image has been cropped from its original size of 1174x906.