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north america and pelican nebulae

80x240s = 5h20min, no moon

location = oakland, ca

date = 7/15/2010 - 7/16/2010

hap griffin modified canon 50d (astrodon L filter), astronomik CLS filter

canon 200mm f/2.8L @ f/4

sensor cooled to 12-13C with peltier cooler

ISO800

master calibration frames made with pixinsight 1.6.

54 bias frames

96 dark frames

40 flat frames

 

light evaluation with deepskystacker

 

processing with pixinsight 1.6:

 

lights calibrated and registered

lights integrated in average mode, winsorized sigma clipping, high = 3.8, low = 3.8

red channel morphological erosion to fix red star bloat

deconvolution (10 iterations RRL, std_dev = 1.4)

a'trous wavelet sharpening

masked stretch

histogram transformation

curves transformation

dark structure enhancement script

 

lightroom 2.0:

 

black levels

red hue, luminance

clarity adjustment

 

 

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Uploaded on July 17, 2010
Taken on July 17, 2010