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IC5148

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - GSO RC12 STXL11002

Guiding - AOX

Software - MaximDL, Focusmax, Pinpoint, CCDautopilot 5

Ha OIII RGB 38.25 hours

Darks, flats and biases applied

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6

Object -Located in the constellation of Grus at a distance of 3000 light years and being a couple of light years across.

This object is known also as the Spare Tyre nebula. Imaging this object is relatively easy until you try to capture the OIII halo which is very faint.