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Sculptor Galaxy at 375 mm

Acquisition:

Around 4h10m worth of 60s subs looking toward Bortle 7 fully calibrated and dithered. This object never goes above 25° from my latitude.

Equipment:

Evostar 72ED, iEXOS 100, ASI 533MC, Baader UV/IR cut, 0.85x reducer+flatter, rotator+filter holder, SVBony 165 40mm guidescope, ASI 662MC with UV/IR and pale yellow no.8 filters.

Processing:

\-OSC preprocessing and stacking in Siril;

\-Crop;

\-Manual background extraction in GraXpert;

\-SPCC;

\-Cosmic Clarity sharpening;

\-GraXpert denoising;

\-Starnet;

\-GHS and curves to starless;

\-SCNR to star mask;

\-Recombine and Asinh stretch to stars;

\-Saturation stretch;

\-GraXpert denoising.

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