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Milky Way Widefield, 



    
        

            Molly Wakeling
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Milky Way Widefield, 



    
        

            Molly Wakeling

Equipment

Acquisition details

Dates:
May 26, 2017
Frames:
1×150(2′ 30″) ISO1600
Integration:
2′ 30″
Darks:
18
Bias:
35
Avg. Moon age:
0.79 days
Avg. Moon phase:
0.71%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
2.00
Mean FWHM:
4.17
Temperature:
10.50

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 2400024

Resolution: 5255x3649

File size: 19.8 MB

Locations: Texas Star Party, Fort Davis, Texas, United States

Data source: Traveller

Description

I piggybacked my DSLR onto the back of my Borg 76ED attached to a Celestron AVX mount and threw on my 50-200mm lens. The lens was set at 100mm, f/5.6. I took a whole stack, but stacking in DeepSkyStacker didn't turn out very nicely (I don't think it's meant for this kind of image), so I just processed a single frame through so I could do dark subtraction and bias correction, and then did some touching up in Photoshop, since it came out very noisy from DSS that way. Oh well, I kind of like this result!

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Revisions

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Description: Re-processed in PixInsight (using already-stacked data from DeepSkyStacker - I only had an hour or two available), and this time the color is better, detail is better, and the noise is lower. Woot!

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Milky Way Widefield, 



    
        

            Molly Wakeling