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Old 06-04-2015, 08:43 PM
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SH2-132, the Lion Nebula

Another image from SRO in California. I have a backlog of data from last summer and autumn before the weather turned to crap like spring/summer in Brisbane

Sharpless 2-132 is an emission nebula on the border of Cepheus and Lacerta. It's not that bright and exciting but I did what I could with it. This is a roughly Hubble palette image. I didn't have any RGB data so I mangled the Hubble data to provide some vaguely pleasing star colours - better than white anyway.

Details are..

Scope: FSQ-106ED
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: QSI683
Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, OII, SII
Guiding: QSI OAG + Lodestar
Image scale: 2.094 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 27x1800s Ha, 12x1800s OIII, 19x1800s SII (17 hrs)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8

Hope you enjoy the image and I'm always interested in suggestions for improvement.

High res version on Astrobin (now with sparkly white stars): http://www.astrobin.com/full/170152/B/

Cheers,
Rick.
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Last edited by RickS; 08-04-2015 at 08:57 PM. Reason: Pointer to new version of high res image
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