| Acquisition Date |
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4/30/2009 |
| Camera |
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self-modded Canon Rebel XT |
| Camera Settings |
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ISO 800 19*5 min lights, 100 bias, 23 darks and 24 flats for 135 min total exposure |
| Telescope |
: |
Antares 8" f5 Newtonian |
| Mount |
: |
Skywatcher HEQ5 with EQMOD |
| Adapter / Prime / Afocal / Other |
: |
prime focus |
| Processing Package / Processing Applied |
: |
captured with Nebulosity 2, stacked with DeepSkyStacker levels and curves and a bit of tweaking with unsharp mask and gaussian blur to reduce noise in Photoshop. |
| Web Site |
: |
www.essential.bc.ca/astro |
| NOTES |
: |
I updated the photo with a slightly tweaked version. Adjusted the background level a bit to reduce some streaking |
