Imaging telescopes or lenses: William Optics Zenithstar 71 ED
Imaging cameras: Canon 600D Baader Modified
Mounts: SkyWatcher HEQ5 PRO
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher 9x50 Finder
Guiding cameras: QHYCCD 5L-II M
Focal reducers: William Optics 0.8x Field Flattener Type VI
Software: Anat iAstroHub
Filters: Astronomik H-Alpha 12nm EOS Clip Filter
Dates:Aug. 8, 2016
Frames: 23x540"
Integration: 3.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.37 days
Avg. Moon phase: 29.25%
Astrometry.net job: 1205905
RA center: 20h 59' 21"
DEC center: +44° 26' 31"
Pixel scale: 2.619 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -179.292 degrees
Field radius: 1.918 degrees
Resolution: 620x776
Locations: Back Garden, Ferndown, Dorset, United Kingdom
Data source: Backyard
Processed using Deep Sky Stacker. Stretched using curves in Photoshop (only a small amount required). Added a bit of contrast and adjusted colour balance a bit. Reduced noise using Google Nik Dfine2 (Google Nik is now free!!). Finally, had to remove the red colour caste from the background due to using the Ha filter with a colour DSLR, to do this I loaded the saved TIF file into Nebulosity 4 and used the Adjust Colour Background feature.
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