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Peter Forister
Charlottesville, VA, USA
02/21/2022
10:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera, Sigma 100-400mm telephoto lens, Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2i tracking mount.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked exposures in Sequator, stretched and color corrected in Adobe Photoshop.

Image Details:

The "Starburst" (M82) and "Bode's" (M81) galaxies in the Big Dipper. Shot from Central Virginia, USA with ~3 hours of exposure time with my camera and telephoto lens setup.

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