| Date:
| 27 Feb, 1/2/3 Mar 2025
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| Location:
| Tenterden, Kent
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| Exposure:
| 354 x 2min over 4 nights - a total of over 11 hours
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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:
| The annotated version shows a total of 1384 labeled galaxies from the PGC (Principal Galaxies Catalogue) catalogue. There are additional "faint fuzzies" in the image so 1384 is an underestimate.
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