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Part of IC1318 (West) - The Gamma Cygni Nebula (SV66ED)
7/20/07

Part of IC1318 (West) - The Gamma Cygni Nebula (SV66ED)

Skunk Hollow Observatory

Part of IC1318 (West) - The Gamma Cygni Nebula (Stellarvue SV66ED) widefield west of Sadr. Shot using a Stellarvue SV66ED piggybacked on top of a SuperCharged Meade LX200 10" with a SBIG ST-2000XM. 3 hours 10 minutes of total exposure time. 100 minutes (20 x 5 minutes) luminance at 1x1 binned. RGB (30:30:30) at 1x1 binned for each channel. Completely automated acquisition using CCD Commander & MaxIm. Dark frames and flat field frames applied. Self guided by SBIG ST-2000XM. Aligned and combined in CCDSoft. Applied light DDP in AstroArt. Final processing done in Adobe Photoshop.

SBIG ST-2000XM,Stellarvue SV66ED

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