- Exposure: LRGB
24x5:10x5:10x2.2:10x3.65
minutes
- L binned 1x1, RGB binned 2x2
- Telescope: Stellarvue SV80S @ f/5.98
- Mount: Meade LX200 w/ super wedge
- Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM CCD, SBIG CFW-8
- Location: My backyard in Goleta, CA
- Date/Time:
- August 24/25, 2004, 23:17-03:16 PDT
- Processing: Taken in CCDSoft v5 using custom
sequence/dithering software. No focus change between
filters. Reduced and aligned in
CCDSoft.
Combined
sub-exposures
with Ray Gralak's Sigma Clip. DDP to with
custom
software. Curves, leveles, saturation, unsharp mask, selective
blur in Photoshop.
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- Name: IC5146 (The Cocoon Nebula),
Barnard 168 (B168)
- Type: Emission, reflection, &
dark nebula
- Constellation: Cygnus
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