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Object: ..... M8, the Lagoon Nebula in false colour - Hubble palette
Date: ..... 12.06.2010
Mount: ..... Losmandy G11 on Berlebach Uni-4c
Optics: ..... SV105, 105mm Triplet Apochromatic Refractor Telescope @ f5.6 (with WO 0.8x reducer)
Filters: ..... Astronomik 12nm Ha /OIII/SII CCD
Camera: ..... Sigma3200 with SX USB Filter wheel
Chip temperature: .... -15?C (regulated)
Exposure: ..... 11 x 300s Ha, 13 x 360s O3, 10x300s S2
Binning: 1x1
Processing: ..... Stacking (Lights, Darks, Flats, Bias), Noise Reduction, Histogram adjustement, blooming removal, deconvolution, colour synthesis (L-R-G-B=Ha-S2-Ha-O3), all with Astroart 4.0 and IP 3.8
Guiding: ..... Autoguiding with SW 70/500, Meade DSI Pro and GPUSB/PHD
Comments: good seeing and medium transparency
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