Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Cassiopeia area, Paul Sugg
Cassiopeia area
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Cassiopeia area

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Cassiopeia wide area with Canon 18-55mm kit lens

Trying to get some practice with acquisition and stacking with DSS. Also just beginning to learn processing. Unfortunately, I thought I had a full battery - but it was almost empty and I didn't bring a spare. So was only able to get 7 lights and 7 darks - so not much data - but pleasantly surprised to get M31 and Double Cluster in the shot.

Light frames 7x15" @ ISO3200

Dark frames 7x15" @ ISO3200

Bias frames 10

no flats

Just camera and tripod

35 degrees out, skies are typically between 21 and 21.4 mag/arcsec^

If my processing skills were better this might have been a pretty good shot.

Comments, criticisms, suggestions are most welcome!

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Cassiopeia area, Paul Sugg