| Date:
| 2 Jan 2025
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| Location:
| High Halden, Kent
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| Exposure:
| Each of the 6 panes is 20 x 2min giving a total of 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:
| The mosaic is 2 panes horizontally by 3 panes vertically. PixInsight's new MultiscaleGradientCorrection process was used to remove large scale gradients in each pane before assembling into the final image.
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