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M45 (Processing only - Jerry Lodriguss data)

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Thanks to Jerry Lodriguss for making these raw files available. Link to his website: https://www.astropix.com/index.html

This is all I can do during the never-ending cloud situation here - but it never hurts to practice more processing.

From Jerry's website:
  • All are Canon CR2 raw files shot with an unmodified Canon 700D (T5i).
  • All lights were shot with an AT65Q at f/6.5 at 420mm focal length.
  • All lights, darks and bias frames were shot at ISO 800.
  • All darks are 8-minute exposures at 44F.
  • All lights were shot at an observing site with average SQM readings from about 20.5 to 20.8. This is a reasonably dark site where you can see Milky Way overhead, but with a significant amount of light pollution in the northwest from Philadelphia and in the northeast from Atlantic City as well as other towns all around the horizon.
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M45 (Processing only - Jerry Lodriguss data), mhtandy