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Old 09-09-2012, 07:14 PM
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M 42... the most photographed deep space object? :)

Had to wait till 2 am, but was worth it.

While waiting, I perfected my polar alignment, added in PEC and a PAE. Finally was able to do 2 min subs without any trailing, unguided, so that was good for me for the night (my guider is on order).

This is 32 subs, 9 darks, 4 flats. I think it came to 12 minutes in total once DeepSky Stacker stacked them all, with a setting of 35% acceptance. Doesn't matter

Still SEVERE light pollution (I was getting green cast pollution from street light reflections off trees!), which washed it out some, but happy with the detail. Tried colour correcting and cropping it a little, but looks processed to me - I NEED MY DARK PLACE NOW!
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