Jim Aldrich
3/15/2012 1:11:54 PM
The Owl Planetary Nebula (M-97) is located in Ursa Major & is about 2600ly distant. The central star exploded around 6000 years ago producing a small nebula 2.8 arc min in diameter.
I aquired the image through Red, Green, & Blue filters and processed the data in CCDStack & Photoshop to produce a color version. A total of 30-10min RGB exposures were used to process this image. I disgarded 2.5 hrs of Luminance data that did not improve the quality of the picture.
Journey's End Observatory
14" Meade LX200ACF
CGE-Pro Mount
SBIG STL-11000M Camera
MOAG & AO-L Guided
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