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The Flaming Skull Nebula

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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 August 2022
EXPOSURES 51.5 hours (L 15 x 1200 sec, R 14 x 900 sec, G 12 x 900 sec, B 14 x 900 sec, Ha 50 x 1800 sec, OIII 23 x 1800 sec)

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

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TARGET DETAILS

RA 18h 25m 08.3s
DEC +00° 51' 16.6"
SIZE 26.4 x 36.9 arcmin
ORIENTATION Up is 240.8 degrees E of N
CONSTELLATION Serpens
DISTANCE 1,630 ly

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