Swan Nebula (M17)

NOTES
DATE:
Saturday, July 5, 2014
TIME:
1:33 am - 1:56 am EDT
CAMERA:
Canon 600D (Hap Griffin modified with Astrodon Inside filter)
EXPOSURE:
10 minutes (10 x 2 seconds @ ISO 1600)
LOCATION:
North Fulton Cemetery (Wakeshma Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan)
TELESCOPE:
Astro-Tech 8" f/4 Imaging Newtonian (with Baader Coma Corrector)
MOUNT: Celestron CGEM Computerized Mount (Hypertuned)
GUIDING: Orion 70mm Refractor and Orion StarShoot AutoGuider
PROCESSING:
Preprocessed, aligned, rotated, stacked, and dark frame subtracted with Nebulosity 2.  Further processing done with Adobe Photoshop CS3 (using Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools) and Noise Ninja 2.
COMMENTS:
Stars are fairly trailed, but I was just testing out the new camera.  Will replace this image with a better one in the near future (weather permitting).