| Date:
| 24 May 2023
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| Location:
| Tenterden, Kent
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| Exposure:
| 250 x 8sec at ISO 10000
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| Telescope:
| Takahashi Epsilon 180ED on Skywatcher EQ6 mount
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| Camera:
| Modified Sony A7S
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| Guiding:
| Nikkor 300mm lens with QHY5 camera.
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| Filters:
| IR/UV rejection filter
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| Processing:
| Stacked in PixInsight, white balanced with PCC, colour correction matrix applied and stretched with Arcsinh Stretch (to preserve hue and saturation) then sRGB gamma curve applied.
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| Comments:
| Supernova SN2023ixf was discovered 19 May 2023 by the Japanese researcher Koichi Itagaki. This image was taken by me a few days later on 24 May 2023. It's a type II supernova i.e. a core collapse supernova. The position of the supernova is marked in the image. The colour of the supernova should be a lot more blue than this but unfortunately it saturated the sensor pixels.
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