Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Corona Australis (CrA)  ·  Contains:  Corona Australis  ·  IC 4812  ·  NGC 6723  ·  NGC 6726  ·  NGC 6727  ·  NGC 6729  ·  Part of the constellation Corona Austrina (CrA)  ·  The star γCrA  ·  The star εCrA  ·  eps CrA  ·  gam CrA
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The Ant Eater by Luigi Fontana, 



    
        

            Edoardo Luca Radice (Astroedo)
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The Ant Eater by Luigi Fontana

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The Ant Eater by Luigi Fontana, 



    
        

            Edoardo Luca Radice (Astroedo)
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The Ant Eater by Luigi Fontana

Acquisition details

RA center: 19h01m18s.61

DEC center: -37°0426.2

Pixel scale: 3.495 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 90.681 degrees

Field radius: 2.266 degrees

More info:Open 

Resolution: 3925x2530

File size: 9.9 MB

Data source: Traveller

Description

Here a beautiful image by my friend Luigi Fontana.

The Image was taken by Luigi during his 2019 expedition in Namibia.

The "Anteater Nebula" (NGC6726) was taken with "double tube" technique:

- Luminance comes from the FSQ106 with SBIG11000, used with L filter.

17x1200 sec. exposures

- Color is from a Canon 60D Baader with 100-400 IS II @ roughly 250 mm focal lenth.

54x300 sec. exposures

More tha 10 hours total exposure.

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The Ant Eater by Luigi Fontana, 



    
        

            Edoardo Luca Radice (Astroedo)

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