M1 Crab Nebula, NGC 1952, Const: Taurus, Type: Nebula, Mag: 8.4, Size: 6'x4'

• 2004-Dec-11 - SXV-H9 image of M1 (Meade LX10 OTA at f/5.2 on G11, an HaLRGB composite of 130:70:39:30:34 minutes of exposure, SXV guidehead at 170mm on ST80 guided through MaxIm, no calibration, unbinned Ha and L from LBV (seeing 6, transp 5 (85+% humidity)), 2x2 RGB's from Nov 13th (LBV), Processing: MaxIm (align, combine, resize RGBs, LHaRGB, combine Ha L 50/50, Ha R 50/50, color combine using HaL HaR G B), Neat Image (noise reduction using 40%). Note that if you look closely to the right and a little above the center of M1 that you'll see a dim red, green, blue streak. I think that this is the asteroid 37846 1998 DV6.
• 2003-Aug-30 - HX916 image of M1, (LX10 OTA at ~f/4.6 on G11, 60 minute total exposure [a stack of 6 10 minute unbinned Halpha filtered images], STV guided, from Anza [seeing 5, transp 7]). Processing: AIP (stacking), PaintShop Pro (cropped).
• 2003-Jan-04 - HX916 image of Saturn occulting M1 toward the end of the occultation (f/10, Meade LX10, stack of 30 30 second images through an OIII filter, binned 2x2, STV guided, from Anza (seeing 8, transp 5, tracking 0.8X, 0.9Y @ 1.0 sec)). Processing: AIP (dark and flat calibration, stacking), MaxIm (DDP:LowPass-Hard, linear brightness and contrast stretch, convert to JPG). Sorry about all the reflection artifacts.
• 2003-Jan-02 - HX916 image of Saturn prior to occulting M1 taken 2 days prior to the occultation (f/4.6, Meade LX10, LRGB composite of 5:5:5:5 minutes of exposure (all 5x1 minutes binned 2x2), STV guided, from Anza (seeing 4, transp 9, tracking 2.3X, 2.8Y @ 1.0 sec with 10-15 mph winds)). Processing: AIP (dark calibration, stacking, color registration, color balanced using G2V and then Black Sky). The same image but with Saturn exposed correctly composited with the above image.
• 1/12/02 - HX916 image of M1 (f/6.3, Meade LX10, 22 minute total exposure [a stack of 11 2 minute images], STV guided, binned 2x2, only dark frame applied, from LBV). Taken through a red filter in an attempt to highlight the filamentary detail within the nebula. You might notice some thermal artifacts here and there in the image. I couldn't find a good stock dark frame that adequately removed the thermal signature of the camera.
  
• 11/14/01 - HX916 image of M1 (f/6.3, Meade LX10, 30 minute total exposure [a stack of 10 1 minute exposure, 5 2 minute exposures, and 2 5 minute exposures], STV guided, binned 2x2, only dark frame applied, Gaussian deconvolved in AIP, from LBV)
  
• 3/28/01 - STV image of M1 (f/3.75, Meade LX10, track and accumulate (4 of 30 seconds), wide mode, from LBV).
• 9/30/00 - STV image of M1 (f/3.75, Meade LX10, track and accumulate (8 of 15 seconds), normal mode, from LBV). This one is a lot better than the one below, both with respect to detail and signal to noise ratio.
• 9/23/00 - STV image of M1 (f/3.75, Meade LX10, track and accumulate (4 of 10 seconds), wide mode, from LBV).
• Digitized Sky Survey image of M1 for comparison
• SEDS info on M1