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  NGC281 (Pacman Nebula)
  
 
 
 
 
The Pacman nebula is an emision nebula, a region of ionized hydrogen located at the Perseus arm of our galaxy. The hydrogen is excited by a cluster of stars.
It can be located at 1.7º from Shedar (Alpha Casiopeia).
The photo was taken by using narrowband filters using the Hubble palette for mapped colors.
 
 
Lens: C80ED
   
F/stop: 7.5
   
Exposure: 8x20' SII, 12x10' Ha 7nm, 6x15' OIII   with Baader filters
    
Mount: Vixen Sphinx Deluxe
    
Camera: Artemis 4021
    
Guiding: Throught WO 66 f5.9 with Meade DSI and PhD guiding software
    
Location: Talamanca, Barcelona
    
Date: October 21th for Ha,  November 1st for OIII and November 2nd and 3rd for SII subframes. 2007
    
Processing: Calibrated and aligned with ImagesPlus, stacked with MaximDL and postprocessed with PixInsight STD
 
 
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NGC281 (Pacman Nebula)

The Pacman nebula is an emision nebula, a region of ionized hydrogen located at the Perseus arm of our galaxy. The hydrogen is excited by a cluster of stars. It can be located at 1.7º from Shedar (Alpha Casiopeia). The photo was taken by using narrowband filters using the Hubble palette for mapped colors.

Lens: C80ED

F/stop: 7.5

Exposure: 8x20' SII, 12x10' Ha 7nm, 6x15' OIII with Baader filters

Mount: Vixen Sphinx Deluxe

Camera: Artemis 4021

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

Location: Talamanca, Barcelona

Date: October 21th for Ha, November 1st for OIII and November 2nd and 3rd for SII subframes. 2007

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

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