Dates:Oct. 5, 2013
Frames: 4x1200"
Integration: 1.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 0.47 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.26%
Astrometry.net job: 87680
RA center: 23h 18' 21"
DEC center: +61° 26' 42"
Pixel scale: 1.911 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -89.493 degrees
Field radius: 1.235 degrees
Resolution: 3872x2582
Locations: Calstar, Lockwood, California, United States
Taken with the modified and cooled Pentax K10D camera on the Stellarvue SV4 scope. No light pollution filter used, just the B+W 486 UV/IR filter.
Guided and Calibrated with Maxim.
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Pix Insight for DBE, SCNR, Masked Stretch, Histogram Stretch to reset black point, TGVDenoise to smooth the background noise, Mt and Unsharp Mask to tighten star images slightly, Masked Curves to drop the background noise and control saturation.
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