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| Imaging Details: | |
| Imaging Date: | July 1-6th, 2003 |
| Imaging Site: | ARGO, Oregon - USA |
| Seeing Conditions: | Poor - Low on the horizon much of the time and partially obscured by forest fire smoke. |
| Telescope: | Celestron 14 @ F11 (3910mm) |
| Imaging Camera: | ST-10XME w/CFW-8A and FLI DF-2 |
| Exposure: | LRGB - Luminance 290 min (Binned 1x1), RGB = 35x50x80 Minutes (Binned 2x2) |
| Mount & Guiding: | AP900GTO, Guided with on camera guide chip. |
| Processing Notes: | Dark subtracted, using Sigma combined master darks, and MaxIm DL/CCD. Then 10 iterations of Lucy-Richardson De-convolution applied to the Luminance channel using CCDSharp. Then DDP applied once to luminance channel, then again to the LRGB color combined image in MaxIm. Photoshop - Levels, curves, slight color balance, saturation, and unsharp mask sharpening. |
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