Monday, August 18, 2008

NGC7380


NGC 7380 is the open cluster entwined in the emission nebula SH2-142. The very dim nebula in the lower left portion of the photo is cataloged as SH2-143.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: July 12 through August 10, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 480 Minutes
Ha = 420 Minutes
O3 = 555 Minutes

2 comments:

tommy said...

that looks AWESOME

clau goes said...

Paul....all of these pictures look quite amazing. Beautiful!
Too bad most of us don't get to see that kind of beauty often.