Distance 29.3 +/- 1.6 mly

Telescope configuration: Celestron EdgeHD 1400 with the Celestron 0.7x focal reducer (fl=2737, f/7.7), unbinned, yielding an image scale of 0.40 arc-seconds/pixel.
Camera: SBIG STF-8300M (monochrome) CCD camera. 6 - 10 minute exposures at -20C and no filter.
Image capture using TSXPro/Camera Add-on.
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX with PEC and ProTrack enabled. Autoguided with an SBIG Sti autoguider, a Celestron OAG (off-axis guider) and a Starlight Xpress AOLF (Adaptive Optics Large Format) device using PHD2 autoguiding software.
Post processing: Calibration, alignment, stacking in ImagesPlus 6.0 using 9 dark frames, no bias frames and 9 flat frames; DDP and curves in Nebulosity 3.0; Richardson-Lucey deconvolution in ImagesPlus 6.0, 9x9 by 10 passes. Cropped then resized to 75% in ThumbsPlus. A second ARL was applied with 9x9 by 9 passes 25-Apr-2015.

See the version prior to cropping here - http://www.pbase.com/wjshaheen/image/158892118/large

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