Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  NGC 246
NGC 246 - Skull Nebula, Nicholas Jones
NGC 246 - Skull Nebula
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NGC 246 - Skull Nebula, Nicholas Jones
NGC 246 - Skull Nebula
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Description

NGC 246 is planetary nebula in Cetus. Its beautiful blue and purple mottled gas was expelled from its once sun-like star 1600 years ago.

For this object I used binning on the RGB images and kept the lum unbinned.

Location: Central Victorian Highlands, Victoria, Australia

Dates: 6 Oct - 11 Oct 2018

Optics: AG Optical Systems 12.5" iDK,

Focal length 2121 mm

Camera: mono FLI ML16200 with a Loadstar X2 on an Astrodon MOAG off-axis guider.

Acquisition: Software: Sequence Generator Pro

Lum : 17 x 5min lum

12 x 3min red binned 2x2

12 x 3min green binned 2x2

12 x 3min blue binned 2x2

total integration 3 hours 13 minutes

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