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09/18/2020
11:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Celestron AVX mount
Nikon D5300 unmodified.
Nikkor 18-300 @ 135mm F6.3

Laptop with Digicamcontrol for controlling the imagesequence.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked in Deepskystacker
Postprocessed in Photoshop. Example of actions: Adjusting levels and curves. Made the stars somewhat smaller with "filters - other - minimum, preserve roundness - 1 pixel". Enhanced the nebulosity slightly with "select colorrange, new adjustmentlayer - vibrance - adjust.

Managed to get just slightly over an hour imaging time and this is a faint target that requires more time, so didn't want to go too harsh on the postprocessing as this will only make the image noisier. But overall quite happy with the result :)

Image Details:

I wanted to take advantage of the fact that the weather was clear, and that Deneb with the nebulosity-rich Cygnusregion was almost directly overhead. I have never shot this target before, and because of the fact that my gear was not exactly cooperating in the beginning, I got only slightly over an hour. Despite the fact that the camera is not HA-modified, the nebulosity came out very well anyway.

20 exposures at 240 sekunder each out of which the 15 best was stacked in Deepskystacker.
20 dark frames
20 bias frames
30 flat frames