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Sailboat Cluster

Sailboat/ngc225

 

The sailboat cluster with the faint reflection nebula the halloween cat in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is located roughly 2,200 light-years from Earth. It is about 100 to 150 million years old.

 

15hr 40’ with 4 minutes exposures at iso-1250

 

⚙️ Taken with Unmodified Canon 60d through an Orion 8” newtonian astrograph with coma correcter, autoguided with a orion starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope, all on a Celestron AVX mount.

 

💻 Processing: deepsky stacker for regester, stacking. Pixlinsight: Background ext, noisexterminator, blur terminator, histogram stretch, added mask curves saturations,. Photoshop: selective color adjustments, contrast, shadows & highlights,

 

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For a higher resolution click link: www.astrobin.com/oikput/

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Uploaded on June 6, 2025