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Old 30-12-2015, 05:16 AM
Jerry_Lodriguss (Jerry Lodriguss)
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IC 5146 and B168 with Nikon D810a

This image of IC 5146, the Cocoon Nebula and Barnard 168 was shot with the Nikon D810a astrophotographic DSLR camera on loan from Nikon for a review of the camera that was just published in the February 2016 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.

http://www.astropix.com/IC5146.html

Click on the link to see a larger version with more information.

This is a stack of 32 five-minute exposures for a total exposure time of about 2.66 hours taken from my magnitude 20.80 observing site in southern New Jersey. It was shot with a 5-inch refractor working at f/4.7 at about 611 mm of focal length.

The Nikon NEF raw files were calibrated with darks, bias and flat-field frames then aligned and stacked in Images Plus Images Plus v6.5 beta. The stack was further processed in Photoshop CC 2015.

Jerry
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