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M13 Star Cluster. May be the most famous of the Star Clusters because, my thinking is, of it's ease to find in the Spring/summer sky.

And the Astro Photographers always want details of how images where taken.

Celestron 102 refractor. G3 Panisonic Camera. 25each of one minute stacked images. DSS stacking. RGB images. Three ASAs used. 640, 800, 1280. Older SP Vixen Mount with the new DD-3 controller and older MT-1 motors. This mount, I have had for some 20/25 years now. Orion Auto Guiding Camera. 80mm. 600mm focal length guide scope. Darkroom image work in Lightroom 4.4. Side note here. This is a 250 dollar camera.

Please everyone into astro photography. This is an image made from a very light polluted urban area of Louisville Ky. I can almost read any notes I have made about mount and camera settings without turning on a red lights. That is the idea I am trying to do is how much one can push astro photography in a bad light polluted area. And on a budget. $250 camera.

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