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Markarian's Chain, Dan Kordella
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First light with the Atik 460ex monochrome. This camera is significantly more sensitive than the 383l, and I found that MaximDL rejected some of my 10-minute luminance frames because the stars had blown out past the FWHM. My chrominance was 180s binned 2X2, and even that was pushing it - the images were overexposed and I haven't been able to get good color info on the foreground stars. I think I pushed into the skyglow a little too much, so unless I'm doing narrowband I'm going to have to back down on exposure lengths.

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Markarian's Chain, Dan Kordella

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