Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1590  ·  NGC 281
Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281), ken_and_sara
Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281)
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Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281)

Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281), ken_and_sara
Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281)
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Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281)

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This one is about 12 hours of NGC 281, acquired over three nights. For an extra challenge, imaged during a full moon...

30s x 1,500 light frames
30s x 20 dark frames

This was quite tricky to process in one shot color - currently we have no narrowband filters for the RASA 8. After trying him in blue, red, yellow, orange ... we settled on this which is a compromise of showing the data we captured versus the artifacts. Flat frames would probably have helped. Overall, we like it - particularly the serendipitous bright star that gives him his 'eye'.

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Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281), ken_and_sara

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