Gum 15 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 LHaRGB 25.3hours Darks, flats and biases applied Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6 Object -Located in the constellation of Vela at a distance of 3000 light years. It is a star forming nebula with a the very bright star at the centre; it is a double star. That star's winds are forming the shapes seen within the nebula.
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