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NGC2440

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - 302mm GSO f4 Truss Newtonian, QSI WSG-8, Software Bisque PME

Guiding - SBIG STi

Software - MaximDL 6, Focusmax V4, SkyX, CCDautopilot 5

LRGB 14 hours

Processed in CCDstack 2 and Photoshop CS6

Object - Located in the constellation of Puppis at a distance of about 4000 light years.

It is a planetary nebula with one of the hottest white dwarfs at its core.

The surface temperature is estimated to be around 200,000 kelvin.