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| Acquisition: |
| Date: 14/03/2008 |
| Location: Golden Grove , Western Australia |
| Optics: Skywatcher 200mm f/5 Newtonian |
| Camera: Modified Canon EOS 350D (low-pass filter removed) |
| Filter/other: Astronomik UV-IR Block L, MPCC |
| Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Skyscan |
| Focus: DSLRFocus |
| Guiding: PHDGuide, Celestron NexImage, 70mm f/12 refractor |
| Exposure: 16 x 240sec ISO800 (1 hr 3 mn 44s combined) |
| Processing: |
| DeepSkyStacker: Calibration, Median Kappa-Sigma clipping stacking |
| Photoshop CS2: levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, jpeg conversion |
| Noiseware: Noise reduction |
| Comments: |
Not enough focal length to resolve the dust lane. Tracking isn't so good either. |
Sombrero Galaxy |
| Constellation Virgo |
| 50 Mly |
| Magnitude 7.8 |