1 - 10 min. exposure at Gain 1, Offset 100. TEC-140 (980mm, f/7) and no focal reducer, yielding 980mm, f/7; Q453HR color CCD camera. No darks, no bias frames and no flat frames applied. Post processing: Bad Pixel removal in Nebulosity2; Demosaic, DDP, color balance and curves in Nebulosity2. Final contrast and slight sharpening in ThumbsPlus. Image cropped from original of 3040 x 2016 to 2251 x 1782.

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