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4-13-08

M101

San Diego, CA

M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, in Ursa Major, plus some neighbors. Dual camera imaging, 3 hours 33 minutes total exposure.

Luminance: 21 x 5 minutes
DSI Pro III, Hutech IDAS LPS, through Celestron C80ED at f/7.5

RGB: 9 x 4 minutes each color
DSI Pro II, Meade RGB filters, Atik Manual Filter Wheel, through Sigma APO 175-500mm lens at 310mm focal length.

Mounted on 8" LX90, with DSI Pro guiding at f/5.

Raw frames dark calibrated and flat/flat-dark calibrated in Autostar Image Processing. Differential between Average Stack and Median Stack used to generate pixel map mask for Average Stack / Median Stack combining. Post processing in PhotoShop.


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