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NGC5979

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - GSO RC12 STXL11002

Guiding - Integrated guide camera and AOX

Focuser/Rotator - Moonlite Nitecrawler 30

Software - MaximDL, Focusmax, Pinpoint, CCDautopilot 5

Ha OIII L 3.5 hours

Darks, flats and biases applied

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6

Object -Located in the constellation of Triangulum Australe.

NGC5979 is a planetary nebula, which was discovered by John Herschel.

It is a very tiny planetary nebula at 0.3" in diameter with hard to define structure.