NGC3242

The Ghost of Jupiter is a pretty visual planetary nebula with a distinct bluish glow (to my eyes), but is described as blue-green when imaged. For this image, I used S2k guiding without any LP filtering, despite imaging at the home. Imaged at 0.59 arc-sec/pixel.

Image info:

12"LX200 on a Losmandy Titan

Starlight Express MX7C

34x2 mins (34 minutes total effective exposure)

f/10

Stacked and processed in Astroart

self-guided with Star2000 and the MX7C

3.28.03

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