Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ-106 ED
Imaging cameras: Starlight Xpress SX-814 Trius Monochrome CCD
Mounts: Sky-Watcher EZ-EQ6 GT
Guiding cameras: Starlight-XPress Lodestar Autoguider
Software: Sequence Generator Pro · Photoshop CS6 · PIXINSIGHT 1.8
Filters: Red · Green · Blue
Accessory: Lakeside Astro Motor Focus System · Starlight Xpress SX 'Maxi wheel' · Starlight Instruments FTF3545B-A Focuser
Dates:March 20, 2018
Frames:
Blue: 25x300" bin 1x1
Green: 40x300" bin 1x1
Red: 49x300" bin 1x1
Integration: 9.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.99 days
Avg. Moon phase: 9.76%
Mean SQM: 18.70
Astrometry.net job: 2034419
RA center: 11h 32' 59"
DEC center: +53° 3' 36"
Pixel scale: 1.436 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 0.028 degrees
Field radius: 0.434 degrees
Resolution: 1699x1357
Locations: The Hills Observatory, Manchester, United Kingdom
Data source: Backyard
I am pleased that I was able to pick out the fainter extremities of the main subject of this image NGC 3718. I ran out of time to get the same number of blue subs in case your wondering why there is less of them. Processing done mainly in PixInsight with final tweaking in Photoshop.
Version B is a cropped image.
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