Sharpless 2–216

Posted by DeanCCD
on Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Sharpless 216 is the second closest planetary and very large in size.  This field of view is 3 x 2 degrees.   The nebula is very dim, barely visible even with a single 15 minute exposure.   To obtain a color image, the H-Alpha data was mixed with the red and blue channels to create a new color image to be use.  This was taken with an E-160 F/3.3 and the STL-6303 for 15 hours. 

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