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09-19-2005 Ralph

North American Nebula, NGC7000

Austin, Texas

This is the North American Nebula, otherwise known as NGC7000. Since this is a big object, I used my Televue 85 refactor and the .8x focal reducer. 10 shots each 10 minutes long with a Schuler H-Alpha filter. Scope was mounted on a GP/DX-SS2K mount and autoguided with an ST-4 mounted on the 8x50 finder. The camera is a Starlight-Xpress SXV-H9. Not much processing was done. Just stacked and stretched in Images Plus, then resized in Photoshop, no sharpening.

SXV-H9,TV-85

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