NGC188

I captured an image of Polaris and the NGC188 star cluster using my Rokinon 135 prime lens with a 1300D DSLR Canon camera on a Star Adventurer 2i pro tracking mount. The settings were 45 seconds at ISO 400. 40 images were captured, accompanied by 45 flat frames and 25 dark frames. These were stacked in Sequator and processed in Siril and Gimp 2.10. An intervalometer was used to control the camera, and a Bahtinov mask helped focus on a bright star. Despite the bright moon, the image was taken under Bortle 3 skies at Fall Bay, Gower.

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NGC 188

Chris Playle