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08/15/2020
11:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Celestron AVX mount
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 18-300 ED VR F3.5 - 6.3 @18mm fl

Post-processing Details:

Stacked in Deepskystacker
Postprocessed in Photoshop to adjust levels, curves and to bring out nebulosity in Cygnusregion as well as the dustbands
10x240 seconds
20 darks
20 bias frames

Image Details:

Pointed camera to Deneb and tracked on the same to be able to hit the dense Cygnusregion.
This is 10 x 240 seconds exposure which got stacked in Dss and postprocessed in PS, to bring out nebulosity and dustbands and make the starts smaller to enhance the visual impact of the Milky Way.