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NGC3242

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 29hours

Processed in CCDstack 2 and Photoshop CS6

Object - Located in the constellation of Hydra at a distance of about 1400 light years.

It is also known as the Ghost of Jupiter and the Eye Nebula.