NGC 300 in Sculptor
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Scope: C8 f/2.8; Location: Laguna Mountains, CA;  17 Sept. 2004; Camera: ToUcam SC3

Exposure: 12 x 44 sec and  15 x 10 sec Luminance exposure with IR Block Filter; 12 x 30 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 galaxy is in the Sculptor constellation.  Horizontal FOV is about 30'

 

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