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A Ruptured Cometary Globule 

CG 4

Cometary Globule 4 HaLRGB

TECHNICAL DATA

ACQUISITION DETAILS

TELESCOPE 1
OPTICS Riccardi Honders 305mm @ F/3.8
CAMERA SBIG STXL-16200
MOUNT Paramount MEII
FILTERS Ha, L, R, G, B
LOCATION Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Australia
DATE December 2018
EXPOSURES 17.3 hours (Ha 12 x 1800 sec, L 8 x 1200 sec, R 9 x 1200 sec, G 9 x 1200 sec, B 8 x 1200 sec)

TELESCOPE 2
OPTICS Planewave CDK17 @ F/6.8
CAMERA SBIG STXL-11002 (AOX)
MOUNT Paramount ME
FILTERS L, R, G, B
LOCATION El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado, Chile
DATE February 2021
EXPOSURES 21 hours (L 27 x 1200 sec, R 12 x 1200 sec, G 12 x 1200 sec, B 12 x 1200 sec)

PROCESSING SOFTWARE Pixinsight, CCDstack, Photoshop
COPYRIGHTS Martin Pugh & Nicolas Rolland

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TARGET DETAILS

RA 07h 34m 22.7s
DEC -46° 54' 06.7"
SIZE 70 x 48.8 arcmin
ORIENTATION Up is 0.6 degrees E of N
CONSTELLATION Puppis
DISTANCE 1,300 ly

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