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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:William Optics Zenithstar 71 ED
Imaging camera:Canon 600D Baader Modified
Mount:SkyWatcher HEQ5 PRO
Guiding telescope or lens:Skywatcher 9x50 Finder
Guiding camera:QHYCCD 5L-II M
Focal reducer:William Optics 0.8x Field Flattener Type VI
Software:Anat iAstroHub
Resolution: 3292x4122
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: 314.841 degrees
DEC center: 44.442 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.619 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -179.292 degrees
Field radius: 1.918 degrees
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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