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| Acquisition: |
| Date: 16/11/2007 |
| 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: 13 x 300sec ISO800 (65 minutes combined) |
| Processing: |
| DeepSkyStacker: Calibration, Median Kappa-Sigma clipping stacking |
| Photoshop CS2: levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, jpeg conversion |
| Noiseware: Noise reduction |
| Comments: |
First attempt. Smaller and dimmer than I expected for a Messier catalogued object. |
The Phantom (M74) Galaxy |
| Constellation Pisces |
| 35 Mly |
| Magnitude 10.50 |