The Prawn Nebula. Credit: Graham Meyer
This beautiful photo of the Prawn Nebula was submitted to us by Graham Meyer through the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum.
The Prawn Nebula, also known as IC 4628, is an emission nebula located south of Antares at an estimated distance of 6,000 light-years. The nebula is also cataloged as Gum 56 for Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum.
Graham also provided us with some technical details about the image.
“Total time is about 4.5 hours in SII, OII and Ha captured through a Megrez 110 scope with a QHY9 mono camera and QHY filter wheel. Mounted on an EQ6 mount running PEC and guided over 15 mins for each exposure. Calibrated and stacked in CCDStack, post processing in Photoshop CS3 and PixInsight. Traditional Hubble palette used for base image.”
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