Sharpless-292 (Part of Gum Nebula)

 

Constellation- Monoceros

 

 

Right Ascension: 07h  02m  29s

Declination: -10° 23' 08"

Distance:  3753 light years

Visual Brightness:  ~15 mag

Apparent Dimension:  121 arc minutes

 

 

 

Image information-

Date taken- February 2nd , 2008

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -25C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations-  Ha, L = 11 x 900 seconds binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, combined in AstroArt 2.0, Levels, Curves, and Sharpening in Photoshop CS 3