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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:Meade Lx200ACF 16" F6.2 Meade SCT 16"
Imaging camera:ATIK Horizon beta camera
Mount:Milburn Wedge Wedge mounted on a pole
Guiding telescope or lens:Individual ED70mm Individual
Guiding camera:SBIG ST-i SBIG
Focal reducer:Optec lepus 0.62 Optec reducer
Software:The SkyX Pro, CCDStack2, RegiStar, PS. Diff. SW products
Filter:Baader LRGB, Hubble palette filters Baader filters
Accessory:Meade on wedge
Resolution: 1096x1032
Dates:March 19, 2018, April 11, 2018
Frames:
62x120"
43x300"
Integration: 5.7 hours
Avg. Moon age: 13.49 days
Avg. Moon phase: 12.81%
Astrometry.net job: 2008611
RA center: 202.493 degrees
DEC center: 47.210 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.837 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 139.258 degrees
Field radius: 0.175 degrees
Locations: Home observatory, Copenhagen, DK-2270 Kastrup, Denmark
This is not an attempt to show a "pretty" picture, but just to show how the M51 Galaxy look like in Hubble palette colors.
Exposure details like this:
Lum: 62x120sec, SII: 20x300sec, Ha: 10x300sec, OIII: 13x300sec.
My home build observatory is placed in my front yard/in the "red light" polution zone, have a look here,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lnr3elrgm81uj0i/Light-polution-mapDK.jpg?dl=0
Stack info. available (as 16bit Tiff) if needed/on request.
Kind regards Niels
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