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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 |
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PixInsight & Photoshop CS6.
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eXcalibrator v5.0 for
(g:r)
color balancing, using 307 stars from the SDSS-DR9 database.
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PixInsight
processing includes calibration, registering, stacking, LRGB
creation, gradient removal and non-linear stretching
with HistogramTransformation .
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Noiseware 5, a
PhotoShop plug-in.
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PhotoShop for
final touch up.
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Comment |
North is to the
top.
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