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IC417 Spider Nebula, Roland Christen
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IC417 Spider Nebula

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IC417 Spider Nebula

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Description

IC417 Spider Nebula in Auriga taken in narrowband Hubble palette
Image taken in one evening during a break in the clouds, first clear evening with no Moon in the entire month of January

Telescope:  AP 305F3.8 Honders astrograph
Camera:  QSI 683 WSG CCD camera
Filters:  SII, Ha, OIII 35mm Astrodon
Mount:  AP Mach2 encoder mount
Guider:  Lodestar
Software;  MaximDL, Photoshop

Exposures:
14 x 300 sec H-a
5 x 300 sec SII
5 x 300 sec OIII

Seeing:  average,  2 arc sec FWHM
Transparency:  Low to medium
Light pollution level:  Bortle 7

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IC417 Spider Nebula, Roland Christen