Start Date/Time: July 17,2010 10:15pm PDTEnd Date/Time: July 18, 201012:17 am PDT

Location: St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Central Saanich, BC, Canada

This wide field photo of the tail end of Cygnus was taken from a church field as a test for a potential dark site. Yard lights and heavy dew proved to be a challenge. The dew in particular meant I had to eliminate half the shots taken during the session. Despite these obstacles, the resultant photos turned out amazingly well.

This photo is a cropped frame from the original showing NGC7000 North America Nebula and IC5070 Pelican Nebula

Imaging
Camera: Hutech-modified Canon T2i dSLR utilizing an IDAS UIBAR-III filter
Telescope/Mount: Canon 70-200mm L series zoom operating at 70mm f/4, Astrotrac tracking mount on a Manfrotto 055 tripod.
Exposures: 24x1min light frames; 15 dark frames;
ISO: 1600

Processing

Canon Digital Photo Pro 3.8.1.0 - digital development from RAW to TIFF
ImagesPlus 3.82 x64: Calibration using Colour at Capture WB + dark frames; Normalize; Grade; Align: semi-auto shift/rotate; Combine - Excluded Min/Max Average. Digital Development: modest contrast stretch.
ACDSee Pro 3: Crop & convert to jpg