Nathaniel Champion
Subject name: Milky Way Galaxy
Date and time of images: September 14th, 2023, 8:32 pm
Camera: Lumix S1R Mirrorless full frame
Telescope or lens used: 20mm fixed lens
Exposure length of time: 8 seconds @ f/1.4 with 3200 iso
One dark frame, 14 light frames
Sky conditions
New moon with nearly clear skies, slightly humid
Software Processing steps: Some photos may need up to 3 softwares, e.g. our 12” Dome scope
images. Hence the different sections. If you don’t need more than one, just fill out for one, and use
extra lines from other softwares below.
Software #1 (Deep Sky Stacker) and steps: stacked one dark frame and 14 star frames
Software #2 (Adobe Lightroom) and steps: slightly increased saturation sharpness and noise reductio

Pacman Nebula (NGC 281). Taken by Will Glass, Williams Optics Z61 + .8X Flattener/Reducer, Canon R, 68 x 1:30, Sep. 1 2023. Bonny Doon, County Fire station 32. Pixinsight 1.8.9-2. Dark, Flat calibrated. Finished in Affinity Photo 2. This image was tracked with an iOptron Sky Guider Pro and a secondary guiding camera.

NGC 6946 or the Fireworks galaxy taken with the 12” Meade LX200 and SBIG ST2000STM at the Cabrillo College Observatory. The images were taken on the night of the 9th of September 2023. There was purple light coming from the horticulture building on campus. This image consists of 3x300s images at -30C corrected with -27c darks as well as flats in CCDOPS and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. The image was taken and adjusted in SiriL. I did Green removal, other saturation, and other color corrections. I took it into Gimp for more stretching as well as fixing the colors ever so slightly. I used a mask on the galaxy to make it pop more. I cropped the image to finish it. Delete comment: NGC 6946 or the Fireworks galaxy taken with the 12” Meade LX200 and SBIG ST2000STM at the Cabrillo College Observatory. The images were taken on the night of the 9th of September 2023. There was purple light coming from the horticulture building on campus. This image consists of 3x300s images at -30C corrected with -27c darks as well as flats in CCDOPS and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. The image was taken and adjusted in SiriL. I did Green removal, other saturation, and other color corrections. I took it into Gimp for more stretching as well as fixing the colors ever so slightly. I used a mask on the galaxy to make it pop more. I cropped the image to finish it.