Image obtained 02-06-2016 through RVO's Megrez 80mm refractor with Orion field-flattener lens, using a Baader-modified Canon XSi DSLR and BackyardEOS image-acquisition software -- 25 (of 26 obtained) carefully selected and stacked 240-second luminance frames combined with multiple dark, flat and bias calibration frames shot at ISO 1600 and totaling more than 260 minutes (~100 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, Photoshop CS3 and NeatImage noise reduction s/w.

 

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