Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  NGC 281
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Pac Man embedded in dust clouds, 



    
        

            Michael von Berner-Purgstall
Pac Man embedded in dust clouds
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Pac Man embedded in dust clouds

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Pac Man embedded in dust clouds, 



    
        

            Michael von Berner-Purgstall
Pac Man embedded in dust clouds
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Pac Man embedded in dust clouds

Acquisition details

Dates:
July 11, 2015 ·  July 19, 2015 ·  Aug. 17, 2018
Frames:
67×600(11h 10′)
Integration:
11h 10′
Darks:
36
Flats:
30
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
11.58 days
Avg. Moon phase:
24.91%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
4.00
Mean SQM:
20.90
Mean FWHM:
3.00
Temperature:
20.00

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 2226070

RA center: 00h52m57s.6

DEC center: +56°3552

Pixel scale: 1.592 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 3.398 degrees

Field radius: 0.663 degrees

Resolution: 2500x1653

File size: 5.1 MB

Locations: My lovely garden, J-City, Burgenland, Austria

Data source: Backyard

Description

I've combined old data with data from August 2018 to show those dust clouds around a well known deep sky object we often see.

;-)

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Pac Man embedded in dust clouds, 



    
        

            Michael von Berner-Purgstall