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The Leo Triplet, estabrook
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The Leo Triplet

Revision title: Reprocessed in PixInsight

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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The Leo Triplet

Revision title: Reprocessed in PixInsight

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Straddling the line between EAA and AP: This is derived from a live stack of 150 x 20 seconds for about 50 minutes total integration. No cooling, no filters, no calibration frames. Alt-Az mount.

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Title: Reprocessed in PixInsight

Description: A year after taking this, one of my very first astro photos, during an EAA session, I revisited the data and reprocessed it in PixInsight. Thanks to PixInsight (and its photometric color calibration process), I was able to reveal far more color in this version. That said, my clumsy PixInsight processing techniques also tended to reveal how thin my data was (in those days an hour seemed like a lot of integration time!), so this version has lost a little of the earlier versions' detail. Despite the inevitable trade-offs, I think this version is worth keeping and posting.

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The Leo Triplet, estabrook