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Medusa Nebula (Sharpless 2-274)
Planetary Nebula in Gemini.  Discovered in 1955, first thought to be a supernova remnant, but Soviet astronomers in 1971 determined it to be a planetary nebula.

Medusa Nebula (Sharpless 2-274)

Planetary Nebula in Gemini. Discovered in 1955, first thought to be a supernova remnant, but Soviet astronomers in 1971 determined it to be a planetary nebula.




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Filename:Medusa_20220127_HaLRGB2A.jpg
Album name:27telp / Nebulae
Location and Date:OCA Site near Anza, California, 1/27/2022
Equipment:Image capture with Celestron C-11 scope @f/6.3 on Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, ZWO ASI1600MM camera with Astrodon filters; guiding with Mini-Borg 50 and Starlight Xpress Ultrastar guide camera
Settings:Luminance, Red, Green, Blue and Hydrogen-alpha - 14 exposures each @5 minutes, bin 1x1
Notes:Software: Image capture - Sequence Generator Pro v. 3.2.0.660; Guiding, PhD2; Calibration, Stacking, Integration - PixInsight 1.8.8.12; final adjustments - Photoshop CC
Filesize:1631 KiB
Date added:Feb 09, 2022
Dimensions:1800 x 1540 pixels
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Color Space:sRGB
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