Scope: C8 f/2.8; Location:
Dos Picos Park, Ramona, CA; 11 Sept. 2004; Camera: ToUcam SC3
Exposure: 15 x 32 sec and 24 x 10 sec Luminance exposure with IR Block Filter;
12 x 32 sec RGB
Processing: Images were captured in K3CCDTools. Aligned/stacked in Registax and saved as FITS. Luminance and Color channels were scaled and rough color balanced in Astroart. Channels were co-registered in
Astroart. The shorter Luminance exposure was used to reduce star size on
the larger stars. Luminance and Color FITS were combined in Photoshop with Luminance Layering.
. Color balancing and final touches in Photoshop. SGBNR (PixInsight LE) was used to smooth background noise on the luminance channel and the final result. Resized to approximately 800x600.
This image was a guided image. North is up in this image. This object
is commonly known as the Sculptor Galaxy; it is the brightest galaxy in the
Sculptor constellation. Horizontal FOV is about 30'