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My name is Dean Salman. I have created and maintain this Web site for others
to enjoy and am always updating it.
I became interested in astronomy when I was given a 60mm refractor telescope for my 12th birthday
in 1969. I took my first photographs of the constellations with a simple film camera in 1974 by
taking 30 second exposures at the Orange County Astronomers former observing site located in the Santa
Ana Mountains. I then got a Tasco 4 inch reflector and installed a clock drive, I was taking
great wide angle shots with a 50mm lens mounted on my reflector.
In 1976, I started taking photographs though the telescope using an 8 inch F/7 and continued film photography.
I mainly did astrophotography with Hyper 2145 film for black & white and Kodak PPF 400 for color. I swicth to
using a CCD camera in 2001 which was the SBIG ST-7E, I now own an ST-10 XME with a 10 slot color filter wheel.
Camera control tracking is done using Auriga, custom software written by Rockett Crawford. All my
image processing is done with Photoshop CS2 and CCD Stack. I mainly do LRGB (Luminance, Red, Green,
and Blue). I also have a set of Narrowband filters (Hydrogen, Oxygen III, Sulpur II, and Helium II)
With these filters, I can create narrowband color images.
Any of the CCD images or in the daytime digital library can be used in any publication.
Please let me know when you use one and give me credit this way:
Dean Salman – www.ccdimages.com
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