Widefield view of the Cocoon Nebula
Telescope/camera: Takahashi TOA130F at f 5.7 with a STL 6303E, Mini Borg 50 and RGH as guider.
Mount: AP1200 GTO
Exposure: Red, Green and Blue at 126 mins each. Subexposure of 360 secs. SBIG/Baader RGB filters.
Synthetic Luminance with RGB channel.
Software: CCD Autopilot 4.0, MaximDL 5.07, Sky 6 Pro, FocusMax, CCD Stack and Photoshop CS2.
Taken on August 22 and 23,2009 in Jackson, Ohio.