Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2736  ·  Pencil Nebula
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NGC 2736, The Pencil Nebula, George Hatfield
NGC 2736, The Pencil Nebula
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NGC 2736, The Pencil Nebula

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NGC 2736, The Pencil Nebula, George Hatfield
NGC 2736, The Pencil Nebula
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NGC 2736, The Pencil Nebula

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The data for this image (HOO with RGB stars) are from Martin Pugh (https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/), which I purchased from him back in 2017.  The data are from a Takahashi FSQ 106N equipped with an STF8300 camera.  The system was located in Australia, and the data were collected in 2013.   The Ha data represented 10 hours of exposure and the OIII eight hours.  The RGB data, which was only used for the stars, had a total of 15 minutes of exposure.  I used Pixinsight for most of the processing.  Bill Blanshan's NB normalization process was utilized to adjust the colors in the HOO image.  GraXpert was used to remove gradients.  Photoshop was used to make minor adjustments to the final image.  Color calibration of the HOO image followed the procedure outlined in this Pixinsight video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPVtmhXJYk&t=307s).

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NGC 2736, The Pencil Nebula, George Hatfield