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Sharpness 2-115

About this object

Sharpness 2-115 is a faint emission nebula which lies within the Milky Way in the constellation Cygnus. It spans a pretty large field of view of several degrees. Faint nebulosity abounds within the area and planetary nebula called Sh2-116 lies within the nebulosity below and to the left of the brightest part of the nebula. The image is a composite using Ha, OIII and RGB filters. The imaging time was 500min of Ha, 540min of OIII, 260min of Red, 270min of Green and 290min of Blue for a total of 31hrs of exposure time. The image was processed with PixInsight.
Image Details

  • Optics : Stellarvue SV 70T triplet refractor
  • Mount: Paramount MYT
  • Camera: QSI 583
  • Filters: Astrodon RGB, 5nm Ha and 3nm OIII
  • Exposure: HaOIIIRGB: 500:540:260:270:290
  • Camera/Mount Control: The Sky X, CCD Auto Pilot 5
  • Guiding: Unguided using ProTrack
  • Processing: PixInsight 1.8,
  • Location: Stark Bayou Observatory, Ocean Springs, MS
  • Date: Sep-Nov 2018
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