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Equipment: Nikkor 300mm f/4 lens/STL-11000M/Astrodon LRGB filters/Paramount ME
F-ratio: f/5.6
Exposures: LRGB: L 12 x 10 minutes: R 12 x 10 minutes: G 12 x 10 minutes: B 12 x 10 minutes: RGB binned 2x2
Date: December 26-27, 2008
Location: Landers, California, USA
Technical Notes: Individual exposures were sigma combined and the RGB image created in Registar 1.0. Reduce Noise was applied to the luminance and RGB images, and Gaussian Blur was applied to the RGB image. A copy of the RGB was combined with the original to increase color saturation.