Nebula Wars: The Dragons of Ara in Hubble palette (Bogdan Borz)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ara (Ara) · Contains: NGC 6188 · NGC 6193 · PK336-01.1 · Rim Nebula

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Nebula Wars: The Dragons of Ara in Hubble palette

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Nebula Wars: The Dragons of Ara in Hubble palette

While waiting to finish my backyard project of M106 (2 weeks of rain here), I shot another must-do Southern Nebula, the Dragons of Ara. It is a nebula situated at 4000 ly and is a star forming region. The Dragon shape is absolutely impossible to miss, I think you can probably observe it without knowing the name the first time you look at it.

This time I drizzled the image, yes a Chilescope drizzle ! , but since I followed the rule of undersampling I was just below 2 pixels with the FWHMEccentricity measurement. Visually there were some small squared stars, so the math confirmed it. The full is pretty big. The problem with a drizzle master is that the processing in Pixinsight is much longer, each step requires more computing power.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	3447459
PixInsight job	3YX8FTEFGJ53OF0UP7QQSBGR2LL1T00B
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RA (center)	16h40m12s.311
RA (top/left)	16h43m34s.701
RA (top/right)	16h43m24s.161
RA (bottom/right)	16h36m54s.248
RA (bottom/left)	16h36m55s.951

Dec (center)	-48°35′04″.96
Dec (top/left)	-49°07′01″.32
Dec (top/right)	-48°01′47″.21
Dec (bottom/right)	-48°02′44″.100
Dec (bottom/left)	-49°08′04″.50

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