Tuesday, July 12, 2011

M27 with the Artemis 4021 CCD and Hutech LPS-P2 filter

 Last fridaynight I photographed M27 (The Dumbell Nebula). It is a planetary nebula, when a star the size of our Sun reaches the end of its life it blows away its outer shell, this is visible as a so called planetary nebula (because people first thought it was a planet instead of a star).
This picture was shot using my Artemis 4021 CCD, cooled to -15 degrees centigrade on my 200mmF5 Newtonian, riding a NEQ6 pro mount.
It is a combination of 7x 1200s
Here is a enlarged version of this beautiful nebula.

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