Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  B48  ·  IC 4628  ·  NGC 6231  ·  NGC 6242  ·  NGC 6268  ·  PK344+00.1  ·  PK344+02.1
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Prawn Nebula IC4628 in Scorpius, Göran Nilsson
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Prawn Nebula IC4628 in Scorpius

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Prawn Nebula IC4628 in Scorpius, Göran Nilsson
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Prawn Nebula IC4628 in Scorpius

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Prawn Nebula, also known as IC 4628, is an emission nebula located in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way, around 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.

This is Ha, Sii and Oiii data I obtained through membership in Telescope Live at the El Sauce hosting facility at 1500m elevation in Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile. Ha is 5 x 10 min, Sii is 3 x 10 min, and Oiii is 4 x 10 min. So not much total integration time but noise was low (no NR applied) and this 8" f/3 telescope is clearly a light-bucket.

I started off with Ha in the red channel, Sii in green, and Oiii in blue, but then tweaked the colours quite a bit in PS towards a more RGB like image.

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Prawn Nebula IC4628 in Scorpius, Göran Nilsson