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NGC 2070 Tarantula Nebula, Sydney Bortle 8
Captured NGC 2070 Tarantula on Tuesday night in Sydney using the new ZWOASI2600MC and ZWO 2” Duoband filter. A beautiful night / morning in Sydney , no moon , no dew, no bugs and good seeing
Started at 11.30pm and finished around 2.00am when my roof blocked the line of sight
6” f6 Bintel GSO newt on EQ6-R mount
42 x 3 minute dithered guided subs
No darks
No flats
Ascom drive set to Lowest read noise ( Gain 100 offset 50 )
Camera cooling at -15C
Goto and navigation EQMOD and Ascom Stellarium
Captured with APT
PHD2 guiding ( 0.80 to 0.90 total arc sec error )
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.6 Linear OSC data set using the Composite module for colour
Image Version 1 Blue Green synthetic composite to produce Cyan
Image Version 2 Red Blue synthetic composite to produce Magenta
Comments most welcome
Thanks
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