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Butterfly Nebula – IC 1318



 

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Common Name Butterfly Nebula
Formal Name IC 1318
Date 7/24/2006
Constellation Cygnus
Location El Dorado, Texas X Bar Ranch
Equipment Tak Sky 90 mounted on Nexstar 11GPS, SBig 2000XM Camera/Filter Wheel, Astrodon Filters
Temperature −15°C
Exposures
# Exp (sec) Filter Bin Net Time (hr)
3 600 Blue 1x1 .5
3 600 Red 1x1 .5
3 600 Green 1x1 .5
3 900 HAlpha 1x1 .75
Total 2.25 hrs
Processing Reduced in CCDSoft
Aligned in Registar
Adaptive Added in Images Plus
Gendler’s Ha 80% - Red 20% combine in Photoshop
Colors combined (RGB), Digital Developed in ImagesPlus
Cropped in Photoshop
Notes
  • Distance 5000 lyr
  • Bright star is gamma cygni or Sadr

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