Australian Sky & Telescope — July 2017

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W DRAGON’S DEN

MikSeveral deep sky e O’Day

objects are captured

in this image: the

bright pink nebula

to the right of centre

is NGC 2014; the

blue nebula at

lower centre is NGC

2032 (the Dragon’s

Head Nebula);

and the green-

blue ‘oval’ is NGC

2020. Mike used an
      Orion Optics CT12
      telescope and a
      Nikon D5300 DSLR
      camera (unmodified)
      to produce this HDR
      image of 106 sub-
      images ranging from
      3 to 240 seconds, all
      at ISO 800.

S CARINA #2
Peter Brackenridge
A more traditional view of the Carina
Nebula. Peter used an RC18 telescope,
SBIG STX-16803 camera, and processed
the HaLRGB exposures in PixInsight.