Gum 15

Image Title: Gum 15

Copyright: vikas chander

Date image was taken: February 12, 0202

Location: deep sky chile

Image Description and Details: A chewing gum in space you say ? Not really but its bubble gum pink color can be deceiving though. Part of the Gum catalog, the nebula is located in the constellation of Vela, some 3000 light years from us. This is a classic emission nebula, glowing red due to warm hydrogen gas but also exhibits wisps of blue which are actually dark lanes of dust reflecting and scattering the blue light of nearby stars. The structure of the nebula does remind me of the more often imaged, Trifid Nebula.

Imaging was done on my fast Takahashi E160 scope located in an observatory in Chile. The image is a tighter crop of a slightly larger field of the full frame camera attached to this scope.

Equipment Details: Telescope: Takahashi E160ed F3.3
Camera: Zwo 6200mm pro
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX+

R= 100 x 3m
G= 102 x 3m
B= 102 x 3m
Ha = 122 x 5m
Total integration = 25h22m
Software = NINA, Pixinsight

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