The Dragons of Ara in SHO, zoom in (Nikola Nikolov)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ara (Ara) · Contains: HD149400 · HD149610 · HD149744 · HD149795 · HD149901 · HD149902 · HD149967 · HD150006 · HD150041 · HD150135 · HD150136 · HD150262 · HD150403 · HD150444 · NGC 6188 · NGC 6193 · PK336-01.1

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The Dragons of Ara in SHO, zoom in

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I have been fascinated by the images of that nebula, but unfortunately, NGC 6188 is not accessible from the Northen Hemisphere. So I have to use iTelescope to take data.

I started a small project to collect SHO data from NGC 6188.

So what is "Dragons of Ara"? It is an emission nebula in the constellation of Ara. Distance to the Earth is near 4000 light years. The nebula originates from a cluster of massive OB1 stars.

The diameter of the nebula is 4 full Moons or 150 light years across.

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Description: Combining SHO

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Description: Integration from two different telescopes from iTelescope fleet: T9 and T12.
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Description: Same stack, but now with color

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Astrometry.net job	2986944
PixInsight job	RHQQ9M2EARIZ3L1U5PFJRNQMRYGZ6SDA
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	16h39m45s.31
RA (top/left)	16h43m59s.41
RA (top/right)	16h43m38s.14
RA (bottom/right)	16h35m38s.66
RA (bottom/left)	16h35m45s.88

Dec (center)	-48°28′59″.9
Dec (top/left)	-49°10′12″.3
Dec (top/right)	-47°45′03″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-47°47′20″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	-49°12′30″.1

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