The Egg Nebula

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Equipment

20in RC Optical Systems telescope Operating at f/8.4
Paramount ME Robotic Telescope Mount
SBIG ST10XME CCD camera with color filter wheel

L R G B color production was used to create this image.

Luminance = 35 minutes binned 1x1
 Red = 10 minutes binned 1x1
 Green = 10 minutes binned 1x1
 Blue = 10 minutes binned 1x1
  • Two iterations of CCDSharp deconvolution were applied to this image.
  • The differentiation of color (blue/yellow) was a tremendous surprise!

    • Minimum credit line: Eric AfricEric Africa/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF (top image)
    Chas Sourek and Diana Hartrampf/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF (bottom image)

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    Updated: 06/02/2005