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Stephane Picard
Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada
03/04/2022
08:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon T1i - 300 mm lens - ISO 3200 - F5.6
175 frames at 10 seconds each. 25 darks + 10 flats.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Photoshop.

Image Details:

M41/NGC 2287 The Little Beehive Cluster in Canis Major. Directly south of Sirius (brightest star in the sky). About 29 minutes of total integration. Outdoor conditions no/little wind and temperature was around -15 Celsius/5 Fahrenheit.

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