Object: M48	Camera: Meade DSI-Pro II
Date: 2/15/2008	Telescope: Meade 80mm APO with 6.3 reducer
Total Exposure: RGB - 20':40':40'	Subexposures: 2 minutes each
Location: West Boylston, MA

Processing:

Nebulosity:
Dark Subtracted

Aligned/Combined

RGB merged

Background Color Adjusted

DDP

Power Stretch

Imported resulting files to Photoshop

Curves and Levels adjusted to taste

Applied Neil Fleming's gradient removal technique

High Pass Sharpening applied

Description:
M48
Discovered by Charles Messier on February 19, 1771.
Independently rediscovered by Johann Elert Bode before 1782.
Independently rediscovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783.

Cluster of very small [faint] stars, without nebulosity; this cluster is at a short distance from the three stars that form the beginning of the Unicorn's tail.