Adam Block's Latest View of the Universe:
The Vail nebula (NGC 6992)
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- Optics 24-inch RC Optical Systems Telescope
- Camera SBIG STL11000 CCD Camera
- Filters Custom Scientific
- Date January 2009
- Location Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
- Exposure LRGB = 1.8 : 0.8 : 0.7 : 0.8 Hours
- Acquisition Astronomer Control Panel (ACP), Maxim DL/CCD(Cyanogen), TheSky(Software Bisque)
- Processing CCDStack (CCDWare), Mira(MiraMetrics), Maxim DL (Cyanogen), Photoshop CS3
- Guest Astronomers Bill Stoffers and John Fitzgerald
- Credit Line & Copyright Adam Block /Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona