| Date:
| 13 Sep 2024
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| Location:
| Tenterden, Kent
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| Exposure:
| 120 x 2min
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| Telescope:
| Takahashi Epsilon 180ED on Skywatcher EQ6 mount
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| Camera:
| Altair Astro AA24CFX
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| Guiding:
| Nikkor 300mm lens with Altair Astro GP290M camera.
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| Filters:
| Camera internal IR/UV cut filter
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| Processing:
| Stacked in PixInsight, white balanced with SPCC, colour correction matrix applied and stretched with Arcsinh Stretch (to preserve hue and saturation) then sRGB gamma curve applied
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| Comments:
| First light for a recently purchased (used) Altair Astro AA24CFX. It has the same full-frame IMX410 sensor as both my Nikon Z6 and the better known ZWO ASI2400MC Pro. The shaft of light coming in at the top is caused by a nearby star outside the field of view.
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