NGC 6188

Date: 14.05.2004

Location: IAS Observatory, Hakos Farm, Namibia (23,2365°S 16,3615°E)

Telescope: Pentax SDUF II

Focal length: 400 mm

Aperture ratio: f/4

Total exposure time: 125 min

Filter: CS H-alpha 3 nm, Astronomik RGB Type II

Camera: SBIG ST-10XME

Guiding: selfguided

Comments: (Ha+R) RGB, processed with MIRA and Photoshop

H-alpha = 7 x 600 s

R = 3 x 300 s

G = 4 x 300 s

B = 4 x 300 s

Very beautiful nebula region in constellation Ara. Unfortunately I missed the bright planetary NGC 6164 (below the lower edge of the image)

Done