orogenicman
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I didn't see a restriction anywhere against posting one's own astrophotos, so here's one I did earlier this month. Enjoy:
NGC 6559, IC 1274 and IC 4685, In Sagittarius
Description from Bell Observatories:
"This region lies in the constellation of Sagittarius around 5,800 light years away. It has a bit of everything. It's embedded within the rich star fields of Sagittarius and contains dark, emission (red / pink) and reflection (blue) nebulae. The area encircled by the dark lane contains at least 7 catalogued objects - IC 1274, IC 4685 (the large, dispersed, reddish nebula above center), NGC 6559, GN 18.06.6.01, Barnard 303, Barnard 91 (the dark nebulae) and IC 1275. The two brightest reflection nebulae are NGC 6559 (to the right - south) and IC 1274 (to the left - north). "
Image:
16 x 360sec = 1 hour, 36 minutes at ISO 800
Processed with DeepSky Stacker and Adobe Photoshop CS3
Camera:
Hutech Modifed Canon T1i with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector and Baader UV/IR cut filter.
Scope:
Modified 200mm f5 Konus Newtonian
Guiding:
Orion 80mm f5 Shorty Refractor using an Orion StarShooter Autoguide Camera
Mount:
Losmandy G-11 Gemini Version 1.04
Image acquisition on 07/13-14/2013 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James Baker Center for Astronomy.
NGC 6559, IC 1274 and IC 4685, In Sagittarius
Description from Bell Observatories:
"This region lies in the constellation of Sagittarius around 5,800 light years away. It has a bit of everything. It's embedded within the rich star fields of Sagittarius and contains dark, emission (red / pink) and reflection (blue) nebulae. The area encircled by the dark lane contains at least 7 catalogued objects - IC 1274, IC 4685 (the large, dispersed, reddish nebula above center), NGC 6559, GN 18.06.6.01, Barnard 303, Barnard 91 (the dark nebulae) and IC 1275. The two brightest reflection nebulae are NGC 6559 (to the right - south) and IC 1274 (to the left - north). "
Image:
16 x 360sec = 1 hour, 36 minutes at ISO 800
Processed with DeepSky Stacker and Adobe Photoshop CS3
Camera:
Hutech Modifed Canon T1i with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector and Baader UV/IR cut filter.
Scope:
Modified 200mm f5 Konus Newtonian
Guiding:
Orion 80mm f5 Shorty Refractor using an Orion StarShooter Autoguide Camera
Mount:
Losmandy G-11 Gemini Version 1.04
Image acquisition on 07/13-14/2013 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James Baker Center for Astronomy.
