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  Rosette Nebula.jpg - Click here to enlarge Click here to see another colour palette Rosette Nebula It is a vast cloud of dust and gas located in the constallation of Monoceros. The Rosette is a prominent star formation region, glowing due to ultraviolet light from the young, hot, blue stars whose winds also cleared the central hole. It spans over more than 6 times the full Moon diameter. The central cluster can be seen with the unaided eye, although the whole nebula its difficult due to its large area. The foto was taken using narrow band Ha (7nm Baader), OIII and SII filters on different days. Lens: Megrez 72 APO + FF 0.8x F/stop: 4.8 Exposure: Ha baader filter, 11 x 15 min; SII, 6x20 min and OIII 9x15min (unbinned) Mount: Vixen Sphinx Deluxe Camera: Artemis 4021 Guiding: Throught WO 66 f5.9 with Meade DSI and PhD guiding software Location: Turó de l'home, Barcelona Date: January 16, 26 and 27 2008 Processing: Calibrated and aligned with ImagesPlus, stacked with MaximDL and postprocessed with PixInsight STD  
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Rosette Nebula

It is a vast cloud of dust and gas located in the constallation of Monoceros. The Rosette is a prominent star formation region, glowing due to ultraviolet light from the young, hot, blue stars whose winds also cleared the central hole.

It spans over more than 6 times the full Moon diameter. The central cluster can be seen with the unaided eye, although the whole nebula its difficult due to its large area.

The foto was taken using narrow band Ha (7nm Baader), OIII and SII filters on different days.

Lens: Megrez 72 APO + FF 0.8x

F/stop: 4.8

Exposure: Ha baader filter, 11 x 15 min; SII, 6x20 min and OIII 9x15min (unbinned)

Mount: Vixen Sphinx Deluxe

Camera: Artemis 4021

Guiding: Throught WO 66 f5.9 with Meade DSI and PhD guiding software

Location: Turó de l'home, Barcelona

Date: January 16, 26 and 27 2008

Processing: Calibrated and aligned with ImagesPlus, stacked with MaximDL and postprocessed with PixInsight STD

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