Comet Neowise and Venus


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Double Cluster (Caldwell 14) / NGC869 and NGC884 in Perseus

Double Cluster in Perseus

Image obtained 12-01-2015 through RVO's Megrez 80mm refractor with Orion field-flattener lens, using a Baader-modified Canon XSi DSLR and BackyardEOS image-acquisition software – 26 (of 28 obtained) carefully selected and stacked 120-second luminance frames combined with multiple dark, flat and bias calibration frames shot at ISO 1600 and totaling more than 140 minutes (~52 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 an Orion SSG3 Monochrome CCD camera using Maxim DL Pro and post-processed with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CS3.

 


 

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