Image obtained October 06-07, 2016 through RVO's Megrez 80mm refractor with Orion field-flattener lens, using a Baader-modified Canon XSi DSLR and BackyardEOS image-acquisition software – 24 carefully selected and stacked 300-second luminance frames combined with multiple dark, flat and bias calibration frames shot at ISO 1600 and totaling more than 270 minutes (~120 minutes effective luminance) were used to create this image; optics driven by the Losmandy G-11 mount equipped with Ovision's precision RA worm gear, guided with a ZWO ASI 120MM Monochrome CCD camera through a 60mm guidescope using PhD2 guiding software and post-processed with DeepSkyStacker, Digital Development Process in Maxim DL Pro and Photoshop CS3 s/w.

 

Note -- click this text or the image above to be linked to an excellent and entertaining tutorial discussing this object and the methodology of finding it without the use of digital setting circles or go-to auto-aiming technologies. Excellent!

 

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