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| Acquisition: |
| Date: 15/12/2009 |
| Location: Beechboro, Western Australia |
| Optics: Skywatcher 200mm f/5 Newtonian |
| Camera: Modified Canon EOS 350D (low-pass filter removed) |
| Filter/other: Astronomik UHC-E, MPCC |
| Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Skyscan |
| Focus: Bahtinov mask |
| Guiding: PHDGuide, Orion Starshoot guider, 70mm f/12 refractor |
| Exposure: 50 x 240sec ISO800 (3hr 20min combined) |
| Processing: |
| DeepSkyStacker: Calibration, Median Kappa-Sigma clipping stacking |
| Photoshop CS4: Levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, jpeg conversion. Luminance corrected LRGB using red channel for luminance. |
| NoiseNinja: Noise reduction |
| Comments: |
| Test target for dithering through PHD guider. |
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IC 434 |
| Constellation Orion |
| 1500 ly |
| Magnitude ~ |