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Crux / Centaurus widefield

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Crux / Centaurus widefield

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Samyang 135mm f/2 ED UMC
Imaging Cameras
Canon EOS 6D (modified)
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Skywatcher 9x50 finder
Guiding Cameras
MGEN

Acquisition details

Dates:
June 5, 2019
Frames:
62×180(3h 6′)
Integration:
3h 6′
Avg. Moon age:
2.22 days
Avg. Moon phase:
5.47%

RA center: 12h15m19s.7

DEC center: -63°0602

Pixel scale: 15.616 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -24.215 degrees

Field radius: 9.538 degrees

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Resolution: 3664x2447

File size: 21.6 MB

Locations: deepskysafaris.com Rooisand, Windhoek, Namibia

Data source: Traveller

Description

this widefield covers Crux and the Coalsack, parts of Centaurus with the running chicken nebula IC2948, Carina to the right and Musca at bottom.

Samyang 135mm at f/2 and Eos6da at Iso400, on Losmandy G11 with FS2 guided/dithered by Mgen2, 68x3min subframes. Location: Farm Rooisand in Namibia, managed by deepskysafaris.com

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