Distance ~160 mly, in the constellation of Canes Venatici. Magnitude 11.7. North is up, east to the left.

Telescope configuration: Celestron EdgeHD 1100 with the Celestron 0.7x focal reducer (fl=1960mm, f/7.0).
Camera: Canon EOS 7D MkII un-binned, non-IR modified. 8 - 10 minute exposures at ISO 800. Ambient Temp +8C.
In camera High-ISO Noise Reduction set to high. Long Exposure NR Off.
Image capture scale: 0.43 arc-sec/pixel. Image capture using ImagesPlus 6.0 Camera Control, with dithering enabled.
Mount: Orion HDX110 German equatorial mount. Autoguided with an SBIG Sti autoguider, a Celestron OAG (off-axis guider) and a Starlight Xpress SXV-AOLF (Adaptive Optics Large Format) device using PHD2 autoguiding software, dithered.
Post processing: ImagesPlus 6.5: Calibration, alignment, stacking using 0 dark frames, 0 bias frames and 0 flat frames, Sigma Clipped Average combined. DDP stretch, no color adjustments, microcurves, noise reduction and Adaptive Richardson-Lucy sharpening in ImagesPlus. Lightening, Contrast adjustments, resized to 50pct in ThumbsPlus 10. Background smoothing in ImagesPlus. Cropped to final dimensions (1600x1200) and one pass unsharp mask in ThumbsPlus 10.

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