Cassiopeia with 165mm telephoto lens at f/3.5 with Pentax 6x7 camera. Ektachrome E200 film. About 18 minute exposure. Various open clusters such as M103, NGC457, NGC7789, M52 and others in Cass well shown and resolved. NGC282 and Bubble Nebulas also shown. Taken from home October 2003 under excellent skies. Tracked but not guided. Slight trailing in RA.
Cassiopeia; for stack of 4 x 5 minute exposures with 35mm L-series lens at f/2.8 and Canon 20Da camera at ISO 400. Oriented in true N-S orientation. Contains NGC 7822 and IC 1795-1848 areas of nebulosity. Includes Double Cluster and northern Perseus. Glow layer added to soften stars.
Cassiopeia with lots of clusters and nebulosity picked up 50mm lens at f/2.8 1 hour exposure, from home, Alberta with very good skies September 1997 Ektachrome 100 Elite film (1997), very fine grained red sensitive film in its day. Though it does not look like it, very little contrast and colour enhancement was done in Photoshop. The slide was very saturated and contrasty out of the camera. Single exposure, no glow layer, just straight.
