Pickering's Triangle in OIII light
Characteristics:
Magnitude: Unknown.
Size: Roughly about 60 arcminutes.
Distance: 2,600 light years
RA:
20h 51m 10s
Dec: 32 degrees 9' 53"
Description:
Pickering's Triangle is part of the Veil Nebula complex, located
between the Western
Veil and the Eastern
Veil.
Please click
here for a wide field view of this region.
Photographic Details:
Date: July 16, 2006.
Scope: Takahashi
FS-102 at f6 , on the G11 Losmandy
Mount.
Autoguider: SBIG STV with
e-finder.
Camera: Maxcam CM10
Filter: Astronomik
OIII (13 nm) filter.
Exposures:
18 x 10'
Conditions: Temperature 80 degrees F, muggy.
Post-processing: Debloomed, calibrated,
aligned in Maxim. Combined
using RC Sigma Reject
MaximDL, followed by DDP
in ImagesPlus (IP). Subsequent processing in Photoshop CS (16
bit format).
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