Widefield around Deneb

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This is the sum of 5x60s exposures I took last night from my garden. I piggybacked my compact camera on the telescope, cranked up the EP mag to the maximum and started manually tracking RA The results were actually really good, I couldn't see any star trailing whatsoever. I stacked in DSS but it's the processing with GIMP I'm still a little unsure about, as when I process I always seem to have images with bright pixels of noise as well as stars. The TIFF is here if you want to download it, at

Deneb Wide

Here's what I did with it

And you can see a fully annotated version on my Flickr account on my Flickr photostream.

Thanks for reading

[virtualpilot45]

Just scanned this on DSS for stars, it found over 260!