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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 | 12/6/07 8:07 PM |
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