THE COCOON NEBULA
(IC 5146)
Celestron Fastar 8 at f/1.95, PixCel 237.  This 30 minute exposure consists of an 840 second (seven by 120 seconds Track and Accumulate) luminance file, and three 300 second 2x2 binned RGB files.  Unguided at -19.78 degrees Celsius.  Post processed with CCDOPS v4.10, and combined in Adobe Photoshop v5.5.  The luminance and RGB set files were log scaled and sharpened in CCDOPS before being combined in Photoshop.

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