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Gum 58

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - FSQ106ED and QSI683-8

Guiding - QSI OAG and SBIG ST-i.

Software - MaximDL, Focusmax, Pinpoint, CCDautopilot 5

SII Ha OIII LRGB 35.2 hours

Darks, flats and biases applied

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6

Object -This emission nebulae are located in the constellation of Scorpius at a distance of 446 light years. It is a bright nebula which is a bubble of gas being ionised by an O8 V star.