Date: August 28, 2009
Location: Victoria Centre Observatory, Observatory Hill, Victoria, BC, Canada

This image was created from a stack of 4 test images taken after a drift alignment was done on the mount.

Equipment: Canon 50D mounted prime focus on a 14" Meade LX200 SCT operating at f/10 mounted on a Paramount ME autoguided with an Orion autoguider using PHD.

1 exposure each at 2, 4, 8 & 15 minutes at ISO 800, 800, 400 & 200 (respectively)
20.5°C, LVM 4.5, Transparency 4/5, Steadiness 4/5, Humidity 45%, high haze/clearing

Processing:

ImagesPlus 3.75 - Auto-process - digital development from jpg, normalize, alignment, average min/max exclude combine. Modest contrast stretch using DD BP-22598. Crop.

ACDSee Pro 2.5: agressive unsharp mask, resize, reduce colour depth to 24 bit, save as jpg.