Summer Milkyway through Cygnus

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Exposure time: 1 hour, 55 minutes (5 min. sub-exposures at 3 min. intervals) Lens/telescope: Canon EF 24 - 70 mm f/2.8 L USM at 24 mm f/5.6 Image scale: 55.09 arcseconds per pixel, FOV 73° 44‘ x 53° 08‘ (F = 24 mm at 6.4 micron pixels) Camera: modified Canon 5D Mark II (1600 ISO, RAW acquisition) Mount: Vixen Photoguider Guiding: - (sidereal tracking) SQM: 20.3 magnitude per square arcsecond Location: Melissant, The Netherlands Date: October 22 - 23, 2011

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