Cat's Eye Nebula

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"The Cat's Eye Nebula or NGC 6543, is a relatively bright planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786. It was the first planetary nebula whose spectrum was investigated by the English amateur astronomer William Huggins, demonstrating that planetary nebulae were gaseous and not stellar in nature"

 

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Date :  June 2015

Location : Backridge Observatory, Spruce Knob, West Virginia

Equipment used :
 Lens or telescope -- Homemade 16" Newtonian with MPCC
 Mount -- AP 1200
 Camera -- QSI 683wsg with Lodestar 2x guider


Acquistion Software : ACP, MaxIm DL, Focusmax
Processing Software : PixInsight, Photoshop

Exposure Detail : SynLRGB combine using a short and long exposure time      Total hours = 2.6

Filter

# exposures

Time (sec)

Binning

Red

10

300

2x2

Green

10

300

2x2

Blue

10

300

2x2
       

Red

10

15

2x2

Green

10

15

2x2

Blue

10

15

2x2

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