2025-07-07:  Lagoon and Trifid

During the Rocky Mountain Star Stare, I imaged NGC6523 M8 the Lagoon Nebula, NGC6514 M20 the Trifid Nebula, NGC6531 M21, NGC6530, NGC6544, NGC6546 and IC4684.  The location was Starry Meadows near Gardner, CO.  The telescope was a 80 mm aperture Stellarvue SV80ST, SFFR focal reducer and corrector, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, ZWO Electronic Auto Focus (EAF), ZWO Off Axis Guider with QHY guide camera.  The focal length was 384 mm at F/4.8.  The telescope was mounted on a Celestron Advanced VX mount and controlled with Sequence Generator Pro with PHD 6.1.3.  The images were processed in PixInsight 1.9.2

13 frames x 5 minutes binned 1x1 for a total integration time of 1 hour 5 minutes.

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Creation time ............ 2025-07-07 02:53:01 UTC

Creation software ........ PixInsight 1.9.2 / ImageSolver 6.3.1 (Windows)

Resolution ............... 2.000 arcsec/px

Rotation ................. 8.340 deg

Observation start time ... 2025-06-26 07:08:10 UTC

Observation end time ..... 2025-06-26 08:33:08 UTC

Geodetic coordinates ..... 105 11 32 W  37 50 33 N  2294 m

Focal distance ........... 387.79 mm

Pixel size ............... 3.76 um

Field of view ............ 2d 19' 11.6" x 3d 28' 15.5"

Image center ............. RA: 18 03 46.831  Dec: -23 46 47.09  ex: +0.002052 px  ey: -0.004791 px

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