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Total image time was 1 hour and 28 minutes.

Moon Phase

Waxing Gibbous

Camera

Seestar S30 Pro (4K Sony IMX585 sensor)

Optics

160 mm focal length, f/5.3, 30 mm aperture (APO quadruplet)

Filter

IRCUT

Binning

1x1

Stacking

StackingWizard, 263 frames

Date

2026-09-24

AstroWizard Processing

GraXpert background extraction (0.5) (x2)

Color calibration (x2)

BlurXTerminator (0.6) (x2)

Mended

NoiseXTerminator (linear, 0.9) (x2)

Crop

Stretch (deep)

Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch

Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch (starless)

Star removal (StarXTerminator)

Darken background (x2)

Contrast (pop) adjustment

Curves adjustment

SCNR (green noise removal)

Star recombination (screen blend)

NoiseXTerminator (non-linear, 0.6)

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