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Iris Nebula (BGC 7023) image

Iris Nebula (BGC 7023)


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Exposure: 8 hours 22 minutes (2 min exposures) over three nights 20 flats per night, 10 bias frames, no darks Site: Suburbs Target: Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) Equipment: AT8IN with Moonlite focuser (focal ratio f/4.6 with Paracorr) Atlas EQ-G controlled with EQMOD Atik 314L+ color CCD camera (camera temp -5 degrees C) Televue Paracorr coma corrector Baader UV/IR cut filter 9x50 converted finderscope with Orion Starshoot Autoguider Software: EQMOD, Cartes du Ciel, PhD guiding, Nebulosity, Photoshop CS5 (with Noise Ninja and Carboni's tools plugins), Astra Image Pro Image scale 1.44" / pixel.