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9/16/06

NGC7662 - The Blue Snowball Nebula

Skunk Hollow Observatory

NGC 7662 - The Blue Snowball Nebula. Shot using a Meade LX200 10" at f/7.15 using a SBIG ST-2000XM with SBIG AO7 unit. Only 7 minutes (7 x 1 minutes) luminance at 1x1 binned. Image scale is .85 arcseconds per pixel. Acquired using CCDOps. Aligned and combined in CCDSoft 5. DDP applied in AstroArt 2.0. Longer exposures blew out the core of NGC 7662 too much. That is why I went with 1 minute exposures. I forgot to take dark frames and flat fields. A fog was rolling in and I was a little agitated... :) I'm not happy with the focus either. Cropped alot.

SBIG ST-2000XM w/AO7,Meade LX200 10

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