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3.59 - "Excellent" 

Horsehead Nebula taken from my backyard in November. Being in a Bortle 7 sky pollution area, I was pretty impressed with the detail I was able to pull out with just 6 hours of RGB data and 5 hours of hydrogen alpha data.

Lights: 11 total hours (5 hours at 300 seconds for ha, 2 hours at 120 seconds for each RGB)
Darks: 30 x 300 second exposures, 30 x 120 second exposures
30 flat and 30 bias exposures
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Telescope: Sky Watcher Esprit 100
Guiding: 50mm f/3.8 and ASI120MM Mini
Computer: ASIAIR Plus
Mount: Sky Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Processing: PixInsight, BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, SetiAstro and Photoshop

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