M76

"The Little Dumbell Nebula"

Constellation- Perseus

Right Ascension: 01h 42m 34 s

Declination: +51° 35' 10"

Distance: 3400 light years

Visual Brightness: 10.1 mag

Apparent Dimension: 2.7x1.8 arc minutes

Image info:

Date- October 18, 2003

Telescope/Focal length/Camera- Nexstar 11GPS @ f/10, SBIG ST-8XE NABG @ -20C autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.00

Integrations- LRGB, L= 6 x 300 seconds binned 2x2, RGB = 4 x 300 seconds each binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks in CCDSoft and color combined in AIP4WIN