Sunday, October 19, 2025

M52 star cluster region

My wide field image of the M52 star cluster region in Cassiopeia taken with my 1300D DSLR Canon camera, my Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2. The camera mounted on my star Adventure 2i pro tracking mount. Settings were 45s exposuresand 800 ISO. I captured 100 images, 25 flat frames, 25 dark frames and 30 flat-dark frames. All were Stacked in ASTAP and processed in GraXpert, Siril and Star Net ++ and finished off in Gimp 2.10.  I used an intervalometer to control the camera, and a Bahtinov mask to focus on a bright star. 

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M52 star cluster region


   Chris Playle

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