Emission Nebula NGC2174
“The Monkey Head”

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<<Photography Data>>
Date: December 6th, 2004.
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(-11.0 °C)
IDAS Type Ⅲ RGB separation filter
R,G and B images were taken with 2×2 binning
Exposure: L;5min. ×14 frames + 10min. × 8 frames
R,G and B;5 min. ×3 frames each
LRGB composition (total exposure time 195min.)
Image processed with StellaImage4 & The GIMP.

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