Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ara (Ara)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6188  ·  NGC 6193  ·  Rim Nebula
NGC 6188, Lionel Majzik
NGC 6188
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NGC 6188, Lionel Majzik
NGC 6188
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The object with catalog number NGC 6188 is known in Hungary as Hands-Nebula or the Creation of Adam. This nebula is often referred as "Fighting Dragons". Many people imagine different things in this structure. I've always imagined two hands pointing at each other. If we imagine the hands, it is very similar to Michelangelo's 1510 fresco "The Creation of Adam," which is part of the ceiling fresco cycle of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. It gives a special religious connection that the object belongs to the Altar constellation. This nebula is not visible from my homeland, so I used an Australian remote telescope to capture it.

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Date: 15/08/2019; 19/08/2019; 22/09/2019; 28/09/2019

Total exposure time: 1.7 hours

iTelescope - T31, Siding Spring Observatory, Australia

Camera: FLI-PL09000

Telescope: Corrected Dall-Kirkham Astrograph 510/3454 mm

Mount: Planewave Ascension 200HR

Focal ratio, length: f/4.4, 2259 mm

3 x 600 sec Ha, OIII, SII (bin1); 1 x 300 sec Lum (bin1); 1 x 180 sec R, G, B (bin2)

Processing: Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

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NGC 6188, Lionel Majzik