M82 Cigar Galaxy
Date: February 18, 2010 8:51pm PST
Location: Victoria Centre Observatory, Observatory Hill, Victoria, BC, Canada
Equipment: Canon 7D mounted prime focus on a 14" Meade LX200 SCT operating at f/10 mounted on a Paramount ME. No autoguiding.
25 exposures at 2 minutes each at ISO 16006.1°C, LVM 4.5, Transparency 4/5, Steadiness 4/5, Humidity 38%, clear skies
Processing:
ImagesPlus 3.82 - Auto-process - digital development from raw, normalize, alignment, average min/max exclude combine. Moderate contrast stretch using DD BP-1600.
ACDSee Pro 3: resize, reduce colour depth to 24 bit, save as jpg.