Spicy Carolina Reaper Prawn (Steve Pratley)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scorpius (Sco) · Contains: IC 4628

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Spicy Carolina Reaper Prawn

A quick spicy prawn image loaded with BIG colours! This seared 'Prawn Nebula' (IC 4628) is located in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way around 6000 light years from earth. It is smeared in with smokey red emissions of hydrogen which is a byproduct of the electrons recombining with atoms to produce the visible nebula glow zangy-ness. Surrounded by a stellar nursery that contains a large number of super carolina reaper chilli hot, luminous, young stars. These hotties include two large blue-white giants belonging to the super rare spectral class-O stars. O-type stars have a relatively short lifespan as they tend to burn out quickly resulting in ending their lives as a supernova! You would definitely need a long glass of milk after one of those!

- Celestron Edge HD 9.25 / 10 Micron GM1000

- ASI 2600MM Pro (~10.4 hours of integration)

- PLL Esatto 2"

- ASI 174MM guide camera

- PLL Eagle w/ Ecco

- Antilia Filter set

S2 - 34 x 300s

Ha - 52 x 300s

O3 - 39 x 300s

- RGB Stars (15 x 15 seconds on each channel)

- Adobe Photoshop and Pixinsight

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7927130
PixInsight job	ZC13OMYSZH6YR82PW16I31UR991FLLFY
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	16h57m46s.722
RA (top/left)	16h57m04s.378
RA (top/right)	17h00m14s.654
RA (bottom/right)	16h58m28s.517
RA (bottom/left)	16h55m18s.604

Dec (center)	-40°17′58″.52
Dec (top/left)	-40°45′16″.12
Dec (top/right)	-40°14′06″.56
Dec (bottom/right)	-39°50′38″.92
Dec (bottom/left)	-40°21′39″.93

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