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FROM THE OBSERVATORY · 08-Oct-2019

NGC 7083

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NGC 7083
NGC 7083 is a spiral galaxy located about 134 million light-years away.
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Notes from the session

Image:
85x 360s Luminance
21x 360s Red
21x 360s Green
21x 360s Blue


Total integration 14 hours, 48 minutes.

Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser



Location:
Exposed over 3 nights between 8th August and 11th August 2019.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)



Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, crop.