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7/9/05

IC 5148 - The Cocoon Nebula

Bellwood, PA USA

IC5148 - The Cocoon Nebula. Shot using a Meade LX200 10" f/6.3 telescope at approx. f/4.7 using a SBIG ST-2000XM with a color filter wheel (CFW8a). 4 x 5 minutes luminance at 2x2 binned. Acquired using CCDOps. Dark frame and flat fields applied. AstroArt DDP applied and touched up in Adobe Photoshop 6.0. Self guided by the SBIG ST-2000XM imager. Imager temperature -19.54 below ambient. Not that good of visibility.

SBIG ST-2000XM,Meade LX200 F/10

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