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Catherine Hyde
Cambria, CA USA
07/08/2023
10:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Stellarvue 80mm refractor, Nikon D810A camera, Astro-Physics Mac2 tracking mount. This is three hours of 5-minute images, stacked. I was also guiding as well as tracking.

Post-processing Details:

I separated the stars from the nebulosity (otherwise the stars get too blown out) and processed separately in both PixInsight and Photoshop.

Image Details:

This is a wide view of NGC 6604 (left), and the Eagle Nebula (M16) which is home to the iconic Pillars of Creation.