2023-04-17:  NGC3344

This is NGC3344 imaged April 8, 12 and 14 at Buford Mountain Conservation Area.  The telescope was a 200 mm aperture, 730 mm focal length F/3.65 Boren-Simon PowerNewton Astrograph with 0.73x focal reducer and coma corrector.  The imaging camera was a QSI683wsg-8 with Astrodon II filters and cooled to -15C, with off-axis guiding.  The system was mounted on a Losmandy G11G2 equatorial head on a permanent pier.  The system was controlled with Sequence Generator Pro and PHD2 and the image was processed in PixInsight.

Luminance:  12 frames x 10 minutes binned 1x1;  RGB:  8 frames each x 10 minutes binned 2x2.  6 hours of total exposure time.