Emission Nebula M17 (NGC6618)
“Omega Nebula”

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<<Photography Data>>
Date: May 29th, 2003.
Location: Mito, Ibaraki, Japan.
SIGMA APO TELE MACRO 300mm F4.0 lens (diaphragm F4.0)
IDAS LPS-P1 Filter
Vixen GP·D equatorial mount
automatically guided with D80mm f560mm refractor + ST-V
BITRAN cooled CCD camera BJ-41L(-2.0 °C)
IDAS Type Ⅲ RGB separation filter
R,G and B images were taken with 2×2 binning
Exposure: L; 5min. ×27 frames
R,G and B; 3 min. ×2 frames each
LRGB composition (total exposure time : 153min.)
Image processed with StellaImage4 & The GIMP.

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