C12 Fireworks Galaxy Still a newbie astrophotographer with…
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C12 Fireworks Galaxy
Still a newbie astrophotographer with a non-deepsky rig -- ha :D This is the second image I dare to post.
**Location**: Bay Area / California (Bortle 7), July 10/11 2026
**Telescope**: Mk127 127mm Maksutov-Cassegrain with 0.65x reducer (resulting in 975mm focal length)
**Camera**: ASI533MC Pro
**Mount**: AM3N mount in EQ mode
**Exposure**: 11 hours over two nights (5 minute exposure per sub-frame)
**Processing**:
\* Stacking in Pixinsights
\* BlurXTerminator
\* Multi-scale Adaptive Stretch
\* GraXpert AI Background Extraction & Denoise
\* Final post-processing and crop in Google Photos
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Still a newbie astrophotographer with a non-deepsky rig -- ha :D This is the second image I dare to post.
**Location**: Bay Area / California (Bortle 7), July 10/11 2026
**Telescope**: Mk127 127mm Maksutov-Cassegrain with 0.65x reducer (resulting in 975mm focal length)
**Camera**: ASI533MC Pro
**Mount**: AM3N mount in EQ mode
**Exposure**: 11 hours over two nights (5 minute exposure per sub-frame)
**Processing**:
\* Stacking in Pixinsights
\* BlurXTerminator
\* Multi-scale Adaptive Stretch
\* GraXpert AI Background Extraction & Denoise
\* Final post-processing and crop in Google Photos
#space
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