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Ritchey–Chrétien at Kickapoo Valley Reserve 2-b
Photo Brainandforce, edited from raw by Cart
2025-09-28
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Raw file sent to me (Cart) by the author per this diff
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
I did a photo shoot with my rig at Kickapoo Valley Reserve in southewest Wisconsin while acquiring broadband data on IC 10. You can see the summer Milky Way setting with the bright stars of Cygnus on the upper left, and the Little Dipper is visible to the upper right.
Setup
OTA: Apertura CarbonStar RC8 (203 mm f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien)
Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i (strain wave German equatorial mount)
Camera: Touptek ATR533M (Sony IMX533 monochrome CMOS sensor) with tilt plate
Filter wheel: Touptek AFW-M (8-position wheel supporting 1.25" and 36 mm filters)
Filters: Touptek 1.25" LRGB, Touptek 6.5 nm SHO, SVBONY SV183 685 nm IR pass
Control: MeLe Quieter 4C running NINA, GS Server, PHD2, and ASTAP
Other accessories: Z-Bolt 525 nm laser in right Synta finder bracket
Target: IC 10 (irregular starburst galaxy in Cassiopeia
