Monday, July 4, 2016

M 27 - The Dumbell Nebula

The weather was cooperating and M 27, the Dumbell Nebula was calling! I decided to do something I had not done before: image one subject for 30 minutes of stacking! Using the HIGH setting on my Canon t2i (ISO 12800) the image was quite grainy:


But stacking 180 - ten second exposures like the one above resulted in:


Quite a significant improvement ! I love the DeepSkyStacker program that accomplishes this.

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