Imaging telescopes or lenses: Officina Stellare HiperAPO105
Imaging cameras: QSI 683wsg QSI683wsg
Mounts: Celestron Advanced VX Celestron AVX GEM
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Orion 50mm guidescope
Guiding cameras: Orion SSAG
Focal reducers: Officina Stellare flatener / reducer
Software: PixInsight PixInsinght
Dates:March 29, 2014
Frames:Astrodon Blue Tru-Balance E-series: 24x600" -25C bin 1x1
Integration: 4.0 hours
Darks: ~26
Flats: ~30
Bias: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 28.12 days
Avg. Moon phase: 2.24%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 1.00
Astrometry.net job: 228980
RA center: 10h 39' 11"
DEC center: -58° 38' 27"
Pixel scale: 2.269 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 170.282 degrees
Field radius: 1.206 degrees
Resolution: 620x496
Locations: Sutherland dark Skies, Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa
This is my 1st attempt at imaging & Processing L R G B.
NGC 3324 is a star forming region at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula
It is called the Gabriela Mistral nebula, because of the striking resemblance with the Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet.
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