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21-May-2022 Marcus Davies

RCW 75 Annotated Version

RCW75 (Rodgers, Campbell & Whiteoak) is also known as Gum 48a and is an HII emission region in the constellation of Centaurus about 6200 light years away. The region surrounds a young star cluster known as Stock 16, which is part of the Centaurus OB1 association (ie a gravitationally unbound group of stars). The open cluster Stock 16 can be seen above the "elephant trunk" shaped molecular cloud and the star at the top (TYC8994-2215-1 (HD 115455) - see the annotated version) is thought to be driving the ionisation responsible for the emission.

I started imaging this in 2015 and finally finished it off very recently with colour & luminance.
This is quite a tricky object to do justice to!

SBIG STXL 11002, Officina Stellare RC 360, Paramount ME
This is an LHaRGB image with a total exposure of 14.66 hours:
L - 3 hrs (10 min subs)
Ha - 5.5Hrs (30 min subs)
R - 2Hrs (10 min subs)
G - 2Hrs (10 min subs)
B - 2.16Hrs (10 min subs)

Total processing time was about 4 days (about 24 hours)
FOV: 34 x 22.1 arcmins @ 0.59 arcsec/pixel

Seeing was below average for luminance and Ha filters with median values around 2.8 and 2.3 arcsec FWHM respectively.

Data Acquisition: CCDAutopilot and TheSkyX
Processing: CCDStack and Photoshop hide exif

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Date/Time21-May-2022 14:22:40
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