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The Bug Nebula

NGC 6302

NGC 6302 HaOIIIRGB

TECHNICAL DATA

ACQUISITION DETAILS

OPTICS Planewave CDK17 @ F/6.8
CAMERA SBIG STXL-11002 (AOX)
MOUNT Paramount ME
FILTERS Ha, OIII, R, G, B
LOCATION El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado, Chile

DATE September 2021
EXPOSURES 16.5 hours (R 3 x 600 sec, G 3 x 600 sec, B 4 x 600 sec, Ha 14 x 1800 sec, OIII 15 x 1800 sec)

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

NGC-6302-finding-Chart

TARGET DETAILS

RA 17h 13m 44.1s
DEC -37° 06' 17.9"
SIZE 9 x 8.17 arcmin
ORIENTATION Up is 148 degrees E of N
CONSTELLATION Scorpius
DISTANCE 3,400 ly
MAGNITUDE 10.1

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