Australian Sky & Telescope - June 2018

78 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018

GALLERY

X VELA VIEW Mike Keith

Oddly-shaped planetary nebula VBRC 1

(or RCW 21) and open cluster Pismis 3

are close together on the sky in the

constellation Vela. This image was remotely

captured with the 0.5-metre astrograph

of the ChileScope observatory near Cerro

Pachon, Chile. Total exposure time was 5

hours using a FLI ProLine 16803 camera.

EIGHT LEGS

Mike Geisel

Mike’s image of the Tarantula Nebula in the

Large Magellanic Cloud was taken on April

16 from Warwick in Queensland. He used a

modded, cooled Canon 700d camera and

UHC ilter for the 10-minute guided shot.

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used); exposure or integration time; and

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