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Ten thousand years ago, a star exploded.
Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula, gas left over from that explosion.
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The unrelated bright star 52 Cygni is visible with the unaided eye.
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Exposure was 3000 seconds, (600s X5) with a SBIG ST-8300C camera.
8 inch f/4 on CGEM mount. Dark sky location, breezy. Saturday, October 22, 2011, 10:30 PM
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Did this one the manual, slow way
recon_badpix_6960 600s CLS curves algn Sat 0.29 4405-5740 Q80CrCG_filtered flip R Q75
Still testing methods. More work remaining on this capture. no darks, flats used here
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Full frame to test MPCC location, think wrong.