September 9 & 10, 2007
Observatory Hill, Victoria, BC, Canada

Using my Hutech modified Canon XTi mounted prime focus on my Meade LX200R operating at f/10, I finally succeeded in imaging this faint object. I managed to tease out some detail from Ha emission line, showing the clouds of super heated gas flying away from this supernova. Further work on this object will have to wait until I can acquire more images.

Details:
Telescope: Meade LX200R 8" operating at f/10 mounted Alt/Az
Hutech modified Canon XTi mounted at prime focus
Exposures: 37 images at 60 sec
ISO 800, Custom white balance
Processing:
ImagesPlus: digital development of Canon Raw to FITS, dark, flat & bias frames applied. Luminance derived from daylight colour balanced red channel to reveal more detail. RGB colour derived from Custom colour balanced image to portray a more natural resultant colour. Very aggressive Digital Development, Richardson Lucy filter, star size reduction, and conversion of final image to 48 bit TIFF for further processing.
Corel PhotoPaint X3: midtone stretch, saturation increase, convert to 24 bit RGB, image size reduction, crop and spot image, and conversion to jpg