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North American and Pelican Nebulae Full Size Image here (opens in a new tab).This my first semi-completed image from the QHY268C and so far I am impressed with its performance.  I discuss unboxing the camera and also how I connect it to the FSQ85 in other posts on my site.This image – above – of The North American and Pelican Nebulae is a stack of 47 x 180s exposures at Gain 0 and Offset 30 at -15C on my Takahashi FSQ85. This is my first deep-sky CMOS camera and I had to research how to preprocess the data from the camera and I will discuss this in another post.Since I acquired the camera and in keeping with the “new gear curse”, I have been constantly frustrated by wet weather and cloudy skies for almost a month.  The 47 exposures for this image were spread out over about seven imaging sessions,…