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Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula

Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula(Lynn Laux)

Imaging Equipment : Canon 350D at prime focus.
Telescope : Vixen ED80Sf mounted on Celestron AS-GT
Imaging Setting : ISO 400
RAW setting
Daylight White Balance
80 X 45 sec subframes
20 X 45 sec dark frames
Camera control by Images Plus
Post Processing : ImagesPlus was used convert the RAW frames to Pre Bayer Colour Filter Array (CFA) and then they were calibrated with dark frames and converted to 16-bit TIFF RGB frames.
Aligned: translated and rotated; combined using min max excluded average.
PSCS used to set white point, stretch, set black point, high pass filter. Gradient X-Terminator used to rmove light pollution. Noise Ninja used to remove noise. Converted to JPEG, then unsharp mask applied. Astronomy Tools used to create frame.
Location : Doylestown, OH

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