Higher-resolution
versions: 1280 x 1024 1680 x 1050 2150 x 1430
Equipment:
Vixen 102-ED/ST-10XME/TS Optics field flattener/Astrodon LRGB filters/Paramount ME
F-ratio: f/6.5
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: September 30 and October 1, 2011
Location: Landers, California, USA
Technical Notes: Individual exposures were dithered using CCDAutoPilot2 and then sigma combined. The RGB image was created in Registar 1.0. Reduce
Noise was applied to the RGB image and the luminance image and Gaussian Blur was applied
to the RGB image. copy of the RGB image was combined with the original using Soft Light to
enhance color saturation.