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.
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