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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Televue TV-85
Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi
Mounts: Orion Atlas EQ-G
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Meade SN6
Guiding cameras: Orion Star Shoot Planetary Imager & Autoguider
Focal reducers: TeleVue TRF-2008
Software: Grekalova.com Astroplugins, Iris, Patrick Chevalley's Cartes du Ciel, PHD guiding, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop, GradientXterminator, Absoft Neat Image, Deep Sky Color PS Plugins
Filters: Hutech IDAS-LPS-FF
Accessories: Bahtinov Focus Mask
Dates: Nov. 25, 2011
Locations: Maurice Louisiana
Frames: 12x180" ISO1600 bin 1x1
Integration: 0.6 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~10
Bias: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 29.23 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.10%
RA center: 19:25:23.152
DEC center: +20:07:32.723
Orientation: 179.90 degrees
Field width: 2.66 degrees
Field height: 1.77 degrees
I never imaged this popular asterism before. It is a beautiful area with lots of color. I want to get more time on this for a better image. This was just a test run. Description from Wikipedia: "Collinder 399 (Cr 399) is a random grouping of stars located in the constellation Vulpecula near the border with Sagitta. Collinder 399 is known as Al Sufi's Cluster or Brocchi's Cluster. The brighter members of this star cluster form an asterism also known as the Coathanger."
