A ball of fire among the countless stars of the milkyway. IC5146 is both a emission and a reflection nebula. The dark nebula that appears to stream off it and to the right is B168.
Photograph Information | |
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Date | 09.28.2008 |
Location | Okie-Tex Star Party, Kenton OK |
Telescope | AP130 @ f4.5 using AP telecompressor. |
Camera | Canon 350D, Hutech modified type I |
Exposure | Sum of 28, 7 minute exposures at ISO 800 |
Notes | 65°F, 35%rh, good seeing and very good transparency Initial RAW conversion, slight asinh stretch in IRIS. Calibrated with bias, dark and flat frames. Noise reduction in PixInsight LE 1.02 Additional adjustments in Photoshop CS2 |