NGC 281/Pacman nebula
About this image:
NGC 281 is a diffuse red-glowing emission nebula, it’s large lanes of dark obscuring gas, dust, and dense knots of dust in which stars may still be forming. This nebula is associated with an open cluster of stars called IC 1590. NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman nebula due to it’s resemblance of the video game character,
Technical details:
Optics: 8" f/3.9 Orion Newtonian Astrograph with coma corrector
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon 60D unmodified
Guiding: 60mm guide scope with orion starshoot
Dates: September 6 through 9-2021
Location: Taken at my Backyard observatory in Northwest Mo.
Exposure details: 10.2 hours of 4-minutes subs, ISO-1250 no calibrations frams
Processing: Pixlnsight, photoshop
NGC 281 is a diffuse red-glowing emission nebula, it’s large lanes of dark obscuring gas, dust, and dense knots of dust in which stars may still be forming. This nebula is associated with an open cluster of stars called IC 1590. NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman nebula due to it’s resemblance of the video game character,
Technical details:
Optics: 8" f/3.9 Orion Newtonian Astrograph with coma corrector
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon 60D unmodified
Guiding: 60mm guide scope with orion starshoot
Dates: September 6 through 9-2021
Location: Taken at my Backyard observatory in Northwest Mo.
Exposure details: 10.2 hours of 4-minutes subs, ISO-1250 no calibrations frams
Processing: Pixlnsight, photoshop
