

NGC 884 (left) and NGC 869 (right) (Double Cluster)
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EPinNC
, Aug 12 2021 11:53 AM
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- Album: West Virginia Mountain Skies

A tight fit at 1300mm focal length.
Acquisition:
Bortle 2-3 skies
Nikon D7000 camera
Orion Apex 102mm telescope, 1300mm focal length
Orion AstroView EQ3 with single-axis drive
30s x 26 frames
f/12.7
ISO 1600
Processing:
Siril:
Stacking
Background extraction
Photometric color calibration
Auto histogram stretch
Manual histogram adjustment to taste
Slight deconvolution
GIMP:
Chroma and luminance denoising (G'MIC-Qt plugin)
Color curves and black point adjustment to taste