Caldwell C53 - NGC3115 - Spindle Galaxy in Sextans - 25/04/2019 (Processed stack)

Imaged at Perth Observatory on their remotely accessible equipment.

DeepSkyStacker 4.4.1 Stacked 16 of 20 Images @ 60 Sec for Luminance and 120 Sec for each of 7xG 7xB and 90Sec for 7xR. Master DARK, BIAS and FLAT applied by SkyNet platform, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 to combine LRGB and using trial AstroFlat Pro for flattening RGB gradients

Telescope - Celestron 14" f/11 with Optec ~0.5x Focal Reducer to f/5.62 F=2000mm, SBIG Filter Wheel with Open, B, V, R, IR, SPEC100, Ha and OIII filters, SBIG STT-3200M CCD camera 2184x1472 6.8µ pixels with field 26' x 17' , Optec TCF-S Temperature Compensating Focuser with FocusMAX autofocus software, CCD at -25C. Maxim DL for Image acquisition. Mount - Paramount ME. Boltwood Cloud Sensor II. TheSky planetarium software.

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