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This nebula has it all, a blue reflection component and a red emission component.

 

 

Image Information:

Date(s)	06/22/06
Optics	Takahashi BRC-250 10 inch f/5 Ritchey-Chrétien astrograph with a 1,268 mm focal length
Mount	Losmandy G-11 with Gemini Level 3 V 1.1
Camera	SBIG ST-10XME
Guiding	Internal selfguiding
Field Scale	1.10 arc seconds / pixel
FOV	40 x 27 arc minutes
Chip Temperature	-15 C
Filter(s)	SBIG standard RGBC in a CFW-8A
Location	Bald Mountain Site at Shaver Lake, California 6266 feet at
Exposure(s)	L = 12 x 300, R = 6 x 300, G = 6 x 300, B = 3 x 300 (2.5 hours total)
Binning	L = 1x1, RGB = 1x1
Camera control	MaxIm DL 4 V 4.53
Processing software	MaxIm DL 4 V 4.53, Photoshop CS2 V 9.0
Image notes	This is my first image using MaxIM DL 4 as the CCD camera control software.  Auto dithering was done between all subframes for the first time on this image.