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The Butterfly Nebula in Emission-Line
IC1318
Object
Type Nebula
Constellation Cygnus
Distance 5,000 ly
More Info
Image
Date 06 Sep 2007 (Summer)
Place Carlsbad, CA
Exposure Data Ha 120 mins @ -20C
Ha 8x15 (bin 1x1)
Notes
Equipment
Optics Takahashi FS-60C Refractor
Focal Length 354mm @f/5.9
Mount Astro-Physics 900GTO
Camera SBIG ST-2000XM
Focuser Robo-Focus
Filters CFW10A, Astrodon 6nm Ha
Software CCD Commander, Maxim DL, CCDStack, Photoshop