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FROM THE OBSERVATORY · 25-Oct-2019

Spiral Galaxy IC5267

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Spiral Galaxy IC5267
IC 5267 (left) is a spiral galaxy 79 million light years away.
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Notes from the session

Image:
93x 300s Luminance
32x 300s Red
29x 300s Green
29x 300s Blue


Total integration 15 hours, 15 minutes.

Hardware:
Celestron 11&qoute; EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x reducer
Astrodon LRGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser



Location:
Exposed over 6 nights between 28th September and 4th October 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, HDR multiscale transform, local histogram equalization, curves, crop.