Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Circinus (Cir)  ·  Contains:  Bungula (α1 Cen)  ·  Part of the constellation Circinus (Cir)  ·  The star Rigil Kentaurus  ·  The star α Cir  ·  The star α2 Cen  ·  The star γ Cir  ·  The star δ Cir  ·  The star ε Cir  ·  The star η Cir  ·  The star θ Cir  ·  Toliman
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"Draconid of Circinus" in HaRGB, Alexandr Zaytsev
"Draconid of Circinus" in HaRGB, Alexandr Zaytsev
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"Draconid of Circinus" in HaRGB, Alexandr Zaytsev
"Draconid of Circinus" in HaRGB, Alexandr Zaytsev

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Description

1h 53min integral HaRGB exposure for the central area of Circinus featuring many emission, reflective and dark nebulae and star clusters - captured remotely using Telescope #4 (Nikkor 200mm f/2, FLI Microline 16200) system of ChileScope observatory, also known as VST - a Very Small Telescope)), over 2 separate observational session carried out on Jan 2 and Feb 17, 2023.


Narrower views of various sub-regions of this starfield obtained using Chilescope instruments T5 [1] and T3 [2-4] are also available:

[1] https://www.astrobin.com/4yov1p/

[2] https://www.astrobin.com/icsgmf/

[3] https://www.astrobin.com/h6b5pv/

[4] https://www.astrobin.com/b2ca29/D/


PK315-00.1 / WRAY 16-156 bimodal planetary nebula [5] near Beta Cen is also making appearance here (on the right):

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[5] https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=pk+315-00.1&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id

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Title: Same HaRGB frame with partial star suppression applied using StarXTerminator

Description: (26% transparent starless overlay and other corrections applied.)

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Title: Ha only version for maximum contrast of the fine structure of the nebulae

Description: (1h 10min integral sub-exposure in Ha processed separately.)

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Title: Overlay showing the narrower FOV image obtained with Chilescope instrument T5 (link [1] in the orig. image description)

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Title: Overlay showing the narrower FOV images obtained with Chilescope instruments T5, T3 (links [1-3] in the orig. image description)

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Title: Overlay showing the narrower FOV images obtained with Chilescope instruments T5, T3 (links [1-4] in the orig. image description)

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"Draconid of Circinus" in HaRGB, Alexandr Zaytsev