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Orion Nebula @100%

Canon 6D (unmodded) with the EF 200mm ƒ2.8 lens mounted on a 2X extender. Tracked using an iOptron Skytracker.

 

 

Had the best polar alignment I've ever had so far with the tracker, and using the darkest skies (Warkworth Satellite Station) that we could work with. The moon was up and there was a lot of thin cloud around, but still managed to do ok.

 

 

20 x 30 second exposures

20 x dark frames

ƒ6.3

3200 ISO

Stacked in Nebulosity, edited in Photoshop

 

 

Final cropped image is 3493x2381px

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Uploaded on January 7, 2015
Taken on January 7, 2015