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SBIG ST10 ME
L=10x200s 1xBin, R,G,B=5x2m 2xBin
Pollux 0.8m azimutal mounted telescope
3557mm (=140 inch) f/4.44
SBIG Filter Set provided with the CFW8
3-lens Wynne corrector
average of 2.19 arc seconds
MaximDL LRGB composit, PS 5.5, SGBNR, no CCDSharp
Medium seeing and good sky conditions (about mag 6.2).
Philipp Keller and Christian Fuchs
NGC 2366 belongs to the M81 group which is about 12 Million light years away. The first
thing you will ask yourselve is why the nebula at the top of this galaxy appears blue and
not red. We don't know, but if you calibrate the image in the usual manner, the color
comes out blue/green.
In the center of this nebula there is a super massive erupting Luminous Blue Variable star
with about 30-60 sun masses. It cannot be resolved in this image from the cluster.
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