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IC4605 & NGC6144

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

LRGB 180 100 60 100 (All sub exposures 20 minutes)

Darks, flats and biases applied

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6

Object -located in the constellation of Scorpius at a distance of 393 light years for IC4605 which is a reflection nebula. NGC6144 on the other hand lies at a much great distance of 33000 light years.