Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3199
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NGC 3199: Yet, another gem in Carina, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
NGC 3199: Yet, another gem in Carina
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NGC 3199: Yet, another gem in Carina, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
NGC 3199: Yet, another gem in Carina
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Description

Site:

Lo Barnechea, Chile

Seeing 5/5 + Transparency 5/5 until clouds

at 23:00 2/5 AND 2/5

Images:

Ha/Ha/CLS/OIII composition

18/18/17/15 subs @ 300 sec each

250 minutes total exposure

40 darks and 15 flats per channel

Comments:

Nice emission nebula discovered by James Dunlop around Wolf-Rayet star WR18. NGC 3199 is about 12000 light years from earth. Hard to get proper color balance, it should be read/white with a bluish taint. Clouds came in at 23:00. Pristine skies earlier in the evening.

Object Name: NGC 3199

RA (Topocentric): 10h 17m 34.4s

Dec (Topocentric): -58° 03' 31"

Transit Time: 23:05

Air Mass: 20,63

Equipment:

Televue NP101is

SBIG ST8300M

Astronomik CLS + Ha/OIII 12nm filters

Losmandy GM8 mount

Software:

Capture software: PHD2, Maxim DL 5.23

Preprocessing: SIRILIC + SIRIL 0.99.8.1

Postprocessing: SIRIL + GIMP

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