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Old 11-07-2019, 08:14 PM
Startrek (Martin)
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NGC 6744 Spiral Galaxy in Pavo

My first image of NGC 6744 large spiral galaxy in the constellation of Pavo
It’s a magnitude 9 galaxy about 25 million light years from earth
The most dimmest object I’ve imaged to date
Seeing conditions average with a 40% waxing moon during the first hour of capture
40 x 5 minute dithered subs
20 x darks
8” f5 Bintel GSO newt
EQ6-R Mount
Canon 600D unmodded with Baader coma corrector
Goto and tracking EQMOD StellariumScope and Stellarium
PHD2 guiding around 1 arc sec error
Captured via BYEOS
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools

Thanks for looking , comments welcome
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