NGC 6729 - Corona Australis Nebula

NGC 6729, discovered by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt in 1861, is a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Corona Australis. It is approximately 500 light-years from Earth and has a large amount of dust that obsures the light from the background stars of the Milky Way. The large globular cluster, NGC 6723 (large white group of stars in the bottom left of the image) looks like it is part of the group, but it actually is nearly 30,000 light-years behind the Corona Australis nebula.

 

Equipment Details:

•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector

•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount

•SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c

•SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel

•Baader Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters

•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope

•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera

•Polemaster for polar alignment

 

Exposure Details:

•Lum 21X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Red 5X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Green 5X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Blue 5X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

 

Total Integration Time: 3.00 hours

 

 

 

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