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Time: 1900 h - 2200 h
Wind: Nil
Temp: -25*C
Locale: My farm, 50 km south of Winnipeg
Transparency: very good
Seeing: very good
Skies: Clear, Bortle 4, new moon (more or less), lots of Milky Way on hand
Camera: Canon D60 unmodded
Lens: Rokinon 135mm f2
Unguided, manual framing, no go to, etc etc...
Imaged @ f4, 120s x 17 @ 800 ISO
10 darks, 10 bias, 10 flats
Stacked, stretched and BG reduction in Astro Pixel Processor, tweaked in LR.
Hope you like it. This is actually cropped more than I like... I will post a more wide field view after I cook supper.
Ian
Fracs: Stellarvue 70T f6; SW 120mm Esprit f7; "Mark Mk. II" - 60 mm Tasco f6; C80 frac f 11.4
SCT: C8 Edge f10 or f7 with reducer
Dob: 14.5" homebuilt strut dob (f4.5 ZOC mirror), Nexus II, Moonlite focuser
Mounts - Ioptron Skyguider pro, Astro Physics GTO900
Cameras and lenses - ZWO 2600 mc, 290 mm mini, Canon 60D modded with Rokinon 10mm 2.8; Rokinon 135mm f2
Skysafari 6 Pro, Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight - using Mac tablet and ASIair pro to run the AP rig.
"Mothers! It is there!" - Rafael Gonzales-Acuna, 2018.