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NGC 281, Carl Weber
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NGC 281

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NGC 281

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I took a break from imaging the really faint stuff I've been doing lately and wanted something easy.  Going through my datasets I realized that I had not finished this colorful nebula with my bigger scope.

I had originally started this project last year but had to wait for another trip around the Sun to finish it.  This bright emission nebula is about 9200 ly from us.  It features numerous areas of dark dust as well as black speck like Bok Globules.

The image is a HaSHO mix with photometrically calibrated RGB stars on top.

105x300 sec Ha
81x300 sec OIII
81x300 sec SII
13x60 sec Blue
20x60 sec Green
20x60 sec Red

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  • NGC 281, Carl Weber
    Original
  • NGC 281, Carl Weber
    B
  • Final
    NGC 281, Carl Weber
    C

B

Description: Rotated and cropped it a bit. Shows the Bok Globules betters

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C

Description: Backed off the crop a little bit

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NGC 281, Carl Weber