M 16, the eagle,
with Explore apo 80mm f6, cropped
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71 five minute sub-exposures . Explore Scientific's new APO 80mm f6 refractor
and Hap
Griffin mod Canon 350d.
This is "second light"
with this nice scope mounted piggyback on the Meade 12-inch LX200
classic ueing the Vixen rings with padding..
Acquired, calibrated (warm and hot pixel removal) and stacked
with Nebulosity 2.1.3.
Backround balanced and slight DDP in Nebulosity, final processing
and jpeg conversion in Photoshop CS3.
cropped significantly for field, no flattner (yet)
guided by PHD 1.10.4 using a Meade DSI pro on the 12
inch at f 3.3.