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M43 (PART OF ORION NEBULA COMPLEX)

M43 (PART OF ORION NEBULA COMPLEX)

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Object Notes:
  • Constellation: Orion
  • Location: RA: 05h 35m 36.0s Dec: -05d 16' 00" Epoch 2000
  • Size: 20 x 150 arc-minutes
  • Magnitude: 9.0
  • Type: Diffuse Nebula
  • AKA: ngc1982
Instrument: Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
Focal Ratio: f7.2 (prime focus)
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
(See product review in July, 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.)
Exposure: 12 x 1 minutes Luminance unbinned, 8 x 1 minutes each R/G/B unbinned
Guiding: Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Date: 2/05/05
Post Processing: CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS

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