It was taken with his Celestron 11", fork mount (alt-az), Hyperstar and a Canon XSI. It's a stack of 10 images using Deep Sky Stacker and Gimp 2 for processing. He took it from his observatory in Clarkdale Arizona, at about 3am on Aug 4th. SQM readings were 21.1.
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