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M63

 

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Instrument

Takahashi FSQ-106ED @ f/5.0 (530 mm F.L.) Captured at 2.1 arcsec/pixel.  Shown at 4.31 and 9.21 arcsec/pixel.

Mount

Paramount MyT

Camera

SBIG STF-8300M Self Guiding Package w/ mono ST-i, using AstroDon E-Series LRGB filters.

Acquisition Data

10/22/2016 to 11/25/2016  Chino Valley, AZ with CCD Commander & CCDSoft. 

Exposure

Lum

 1730 min. (173 x 10 min. each)  binned 1x1

RGB

  720 min. (24 x 10 min. each)        "

 RGB combine ratios are 1.00, 0.98, 0.92

Software

  • PixInsight & Photoshop CS6.

  • eXcalibrator v5.0 for (g:r) color balancing, using 307 stars from the SDSS-DR9 database.

  • PixInsight processing includes calibration, registering, stacking, LRGB creation, gradient removal and non-linear stretching with HistogramTransformation .

  • Noiseware 5, a PhotoShop plug-in.

  • PhotoShop for final touch up.

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