Equipment: Nikkor
300mm f/4 lens/ST-10XME/Astrodon LRGB filters/Paramount ME F-ratio: f/5.6 Exposures: RRGB: R 12 x 20 minutes: G 12 x 5 minutes: B 12
x 5 minutes: RGB binned 2x2 Date: September 18, 2009 Location: Landers, California, USA Technical Notes: Individual exposures were dithered using Paul Kanevsky's Auto Dither plug-in for CCDSoft and
then sigma combined. The RGB image was
created in Registar 1.0. Reduce Noise and Gaussian Blur were applied to the RGB image. The
RGB image was duplicated and combined with the original using Soft Light to enhance color
saturation.
